Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day is known for all of its gifts. It seems like kind of a superficial holiday to me, it is supposed to be about loving someone or the people that you love and spending time with them and letting them know how you feel about them and that you care about them deeply. Instead it has turned into more of a show. It puts so much pressure on relationships (old and new) to do the right thing, make the right plans and buy the right gifts. I have never really been a fan of the holiday, although I love what it is all about.
One Valentine's Day though my girl friends and I decided to spend the day together celebrating and then the evening could be left for our dates (and those with no dates would continue on). So we met for brunch and treated ourselves to manicures and pedicures and went shopping and then to a park. It was such a great day and we decided to make light of the gift giving and each do something or give something small as sort of a grab bag thing. One of my friends pulled my name and she got me haribo candy. I had never heard of it before but after that, I was hooked. It was such a great, easy yet cute gift. She wrapped the gummy candy up in the cutest bags and boxes that were pink and red and had bows.
Since then I have been more of a fan of the holiday. But I usually spend the day with my girlfriends now and have a pressure free day before going out at night with a guy. And the candy is always part of the day now. We buy bulk candy together and instead of buying individual gifts for each other we gather the different kinds of candy and we pick a person's name and we decorate cute little bags for each other. This way, the pressure of finding a gift is off, we all get something that we love and is a pretty good price and we get to spend time together when we are putting the bags together!
So this holiday isn't so bad after all I guess. I think if you find the right people to spend it with, in the right way, you really can't go wrong.