Maybe A New Valentine's Tradition

Last week before we went to Whitefish, I came up with a game plan for Valentine's Day for Justin and I. I decided since we would be eating out all weekend since we were out of town, we should just stay home and cook our own supper and dessert. I took it even a little bit further, with Justin being in charge of cooking supper and I'd make the dessert. And of course, I threw in the little bit of it not costing more than $20 for each course. (Stole that idea from the $20 Date idea.) And for presents, I thought it would be fun to come up with something creative for each other for ten dollars! (No flowers at all here!)

When Justin was coming up with something to cook for supper when we got home Sunday night, he mentioned Japenese chicken with rice. When he didn't make it that night, I figured there'd be a good chance that's what he was making for his Valentine's Day surprise supper. When I called while I was leaving work saying that I still needed to stop at Walmart to gather my items, he was okay with me taking half an hour since he was going to be about that look cooking; that synched the deal - for sure he was making that for supper, since it takes so long to make.

I went around Walmart not too sure what I should get him. I saw a Blu Ray copy of Last House On The Left, but couldn't rememeber if Justin had really liked that movie. I saw a DVD of Ocean's Eleven and Twelve but wasn't sure about that either. I made a trip through the hunting and camping section. Then started heading towards the scrapbooking area. That's when I decided on a hunting magazine.

I had been thinking all day about sitting down to a nice dinner with my fabulous husband, at the table in candlelight. When I walked into the house and saw that Justin had already set the table, it brought a huge smile to my face (he even had a bottle of wine left over from the wedding sitting out too)!

My mum had dropped off a Valentine's gift for Justin and I to me at work today. She told me I had to wait to open it until I got home, which made me a little skeptical of what was in this tightly sealed bag that she gave me; but it turned out to be a nice little gift of chocolates! My mum had a really good suggestion that she saw someplace, which I'm going to do next year: every year this couple passes the same Valentine's card back and forth between them, each year they right a new love note to the recipient until the card is completely full then they purchase another and start again. You could have at least ten years of sweet notes in one place to reminisce with! Such a neat idea, and since this is the first year as husband and wife, I have a fresh card to continue with next year; how cool for the first however-many-years as husband and wife all the Valentine's love notes to be in one card.

Justin asked if I wanted to exchange gifts before supper, and I thought it was a good idea. I had kind of thought he might have forgotten about the gift aspect of the day, but he surpassed my expectations: two bags of Mini Eggs, the Valentine's issue of Scrapbooks etc. and a really funny card (Happy Valentine's Day to my wife - the woman who gets all my love, all my devotion and all my covers), with a sweet hand-written note.

Justin asked what I thought he was making and when I made my guess, he said no. I must have had a sad look on my face, because then he said that I was right. I told him how I had my "eye-tooth" all sharpened up for eating that tonight because of him mentioning it the previous night. He did surprise me with some yummy pot-stickers!

I kind of forgot to get a picture of my dessert before we started eating it. But it was so yummy, although far from perfect! I bought pre-cut pineapple, honeydew and cantelope, cut up an apple, had a bag of two-bite cinnamon buns and had fondue with chocolate and butterscotch chips. Unfortunately both the dips got a little too hot from the heat of the candle, and burnt a little bit. But Justin still seemed to enjoy it. I finally made use of the fondue pots that I borrowed from my mum close to a year ago! When I asked Justin what he thought I was making, he said ice cream and toppings - that sounds like a good plan for a $20 Date Night to me! We watched It's Kind Of A Funny Story, well - I watched and Justin had a little nap. And we got the DVD of pictures from our wedding too, so we watched that also. Always nice to think about how fantastic our wedding day was! Then cleaned up and headed to bed.

Justin told me in the morning, before I got out of bed that I had to be Lowie's Valentine too, because he didn't have anyone. So here are my two Valentine's and myself!