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Romantic Valentine Ideas Part 3
- I hope it's not too late to tell you about my romanic
valentine idea. One year, when my husband was gone
with the Military, he sent me 2 dozen roses. (One
dozen white and one dozen red). The rose in the
center was silk. The note attached said, "I'll love
you till the last rose dies." And of course, since
the center rose was silk, it is still as beautiful as
the day he sent them. And I feel his love each time I
see it!
Flybaby in UT
- we have a great group of valentines friends that gets together each year for
a totally fun and romantic evening. the guys cook the dinner together while
the gals gather at one house for a little champagne etc. when we arrive
there is usually a path of rose petals to the door, everyone is very dressed
up, the dh's meet us at the door with a rose, and kiss. we enjoy a fantastic
meal, then usually dance for a while. it is such a treat. we usually pick a
sunday or saturday night near valentines, depending on everyone's schedule.
the men really go all out putting candles and other touches in place.. it is
amazing!!
so there's one fun idea to share from sunny sonoma california.
xoxoxox
- Hey Ladies,
I just wanted to drop a note about what my husband of 17 yrs. is doing for Valentines day. I have no idea!!!!!!!!!! We had a discussion about Feb 14th about a month ago. I told him I thought it might be a good idea to alternate this holiday yearly. He agreed!! Much to my suprise. He's one of those very loyal types with not alot of emotion to go with it. We have a ds (13), who needs to see how to treat a lady especially in our times, and 2 dd's (15 & 9) who need to know how to give and receive love.
Well yesterday my husband called and asked me what my favorite font on the computer was. Without asking any questons I told him. He called me about an hour later and told me that the girls and I should be looking in the mail for our Valentine's invitations.We will each be getting one.He is soooooooooo excited. He and our son stand in the corner an talk about what they think our favorite part of the night will be. It's nice to see the 2 of them so interested in this special day.
I'll let you know what happens.
Thanks for all you do,
- Dear all,
I'm stuck for ideas this year and hope to get some from the Flylady website. However, last year's surprise went well ...
In the morning my DH gave me a beautiful card which he had commissioned for me and which was really significant to us. I didn't want to let on that I hadn't actually done anything special for him! So, I left work early, ordered a giant heart-shaped cookie with an icing message "I'm upstairs". I left it on the doorstep so that he would find it when he came home from work. Next I turned off the lights and placed lit candles all the way from the front door, across the hall, up the stairs and across the landing into the bathroom, I also scattered my prettiest underwear set along the way for fun! I put classical, romantic music on the stereo and champagne on ice in the bathroom. I completed it with small tea-light candles all the way around the bathtub and rose petals too. I ran a hot bath with lots of bubbles and got in! It was wonderful to hear him laugh at the door and he really appreciated the surprise at the end of the trail.
Happy Valentines to everyone.
Lots of love, a Nottingham, England flybaby
- Flylady,
this isn't just for my husband but the whole family, budget is tight so
three years ago we started this. Didn't really know anyone had noticed
until I heard my 10 year old describe to a friend how wonderful I make
Valentines day.
The children and I go roller skating during the day. Homeschool family
great party lots of fun.
We come home and set the table, lace table cloth, red candles, the good
stoneware, cloth napkins.
I cook, chicken breast, rice, salad, vegetable.
But when everyone comes to the table(the children always set the table) the
surprise is a gift and card at each place. all different and special for
each of them.
Then we do a wonderful dessert, this year will be chocolate fondue, with
strawberries, cherries, marshmallows, pound cake, and bananas.
My family loves it, we are all together, than, since Valentines day is on
Monday, we will all go to the Y and swim for 45 minutes.
Blessings our hearts and continuing to make memories.
Thanks Flylady
For helping us understand, that, it isn't how much you spend, but that you
do it.
And since we do our routines, we can plat during the day and still have a
clean house to have a nice dinner.
Blessings
S in Omaha
- My husband and I will be unable to be together this Valentine's Day. He has a business trip and I need to be with my adult daughter that is having a medical procedure. I have made him a simple video (you can use PowerPoint or one of the many simple inexpensive slideshow softwares available--I bought mine months ago at Costco for $15.00) that I am going to wrap and stick in his suitcase. You can use "your" special song or one that conveys your feelings. My husband and I both had bad previous marriages and I chose the Rascal Flatts' song "God Bless the Broken Road." I used pictures of him when he was a child, pictures of myself as a little girl and pictures of us together throughout our marriage. If your short on pictures of the two of you, use photos taken of special places you have been together, i.e., restaurants, lake, even your home, etc. It took me just a couple of hours to collect the photos and put it together. I have a scanner but your local photoshop can put copies of your photos on a disk if needed. Simple, special, and inexpensive!
- Dear FlyCrew-
Long ago before I became a stay at home Mom
and we had extra money and a minute alone.
(I adore my children but do miss private romantic moments once in a while.)
I woke one Valentines Day morning to
a cup of my favorite coffee w/ vanilla creamer in my favorite pottery mug
(Got it on a date w/ DSH at a street fair one summer - sentimental about it)
and
a piece of my favorite chocolate waiting for me on the bathroom counter
and the heat having been on a while to warm the bathroom
before I stepped into the shower.
Upon exiting the shower my husband rushed into the bathroom
with a towel warm out of the dryer before I could reach for
the one I usually have on a seat by the shower door.
When I looked over at the mirror he had written I Love You in the steam
I went to get in my car and found DSH had started it while
I was getting dressed and it was warm and ready to go with
yet another cup of coffee just the way I like it in my cup holder
and a small bag w/ bagel and cream cheese for my 1st break at work.
When I got to work I found a note on my office door I was to
see the receptionist...
She handed me a note from DH telling me to be out front of my building
at lunch time and a cute little tiny plant for my office windowsill.
DH arrived at lunch with my favorite salad, drink and a blanket
for the back of his pick up as there wasn't dry grass to be found
in Feb in WA.
For dinner I came home to a heart shaped Pizza, a whole box of my favorite
chocolates (Frangos) and a romantic card and flowers.
Simple things, each caterered to my very own likes
no one but my DSH would know to do
made my whole day!
I'm recently just beginning to see the many "simple things" DH now does
to say he Loves Me I often take for granted: 2 babies ( 5 yrs & 2 yrs)
and several years later.
Learning to fly a day at a time
in WA State
- Happy Valentine's Day! The best Valentine's Gift I received was a scavenger hunt through out the house a few years ago. I found a note with clues leading to another note some with Hershey's Kisses or Sweetheart Candies with sayings attached. The final note told me that my DH had planned a weekend away for us (Grandmom was enlisted to watch the kids for the weekend) to celebrate. Everything was taken care of in advance, a lot of thought went into this. The weekend away was nice but the search (DH was at work and the kids at school) was so much fun, I felt like a young girl! This gift made me feel and I still feel very special. A repeat would be very nice! LOL! However, it would be great if DH were able to take a vacation day and we could spend the day together ending with a quiet dinner for two at home, with no restaurant crowds, and a bottle of sparkling cider. Since a vacation day is not possible the dinner and sparkling cider would be wonderful!
TW in NJ
PS These can be for the special guy in your life too!
- I decided I was not going to Martyr my way through this Valentines! Last week I bought carnations in a bunch and put them in multiple bud vases...and on Saturday I put on a nice dinner for my boys with red tablecloth, candle, and flowers, fancy dessert, music and the works. While I was out I bought myself a pretty blouse and some nice lipstick and lotion....and a nice heart shaped ring for DH to give to ME! LOL....this week I told DH what I would like to do for valentines, then I made the arrangements for a nice hotel and an antique show. He is very busy and appreciates my footwork on this. He will figure out the "surprize" way to present me with the ring I picked out and love!
Today I bought some fun things to eat over the weekend ..smoked salmon, cheese and crackers, sparkling punch, chocolate truffles, fruits, ect. We can have a fun meal in our room!
Tomorrow I will mail out Valentines to my children. I think this might be my favorite valentines ever because I am not just waiting to see what happens this time...I am making it happen for US!
I told him I would like him to think of some things he would like me to think about when I wear my ring. I have already figured out that I FINALLY LOVE MYSELF! Perhaps it seems I am doing too much, but this is ONE valentines day, and I am going to enjoy every minute of it! I won't be waiting to see if he gets a card, flowers, or candy....he is giving me just what I want this time, because I was able to just tell him what that really is! He had planned to go to a scout outing, but I said, um, "Naaaaaaaaaah, I think I have something more fun we can do!" My old self would have cheerfully said goodbye as the boys walked out the door and then stewed while they were gone. Yay! FLY!
- Our marriage isn't going too great these days. We're both to blame--pretty equally in fact. So I'm going to take responsibility for my share by writting him a love letter thanking him for all the good stuff about him. It's going to be written on a heart shaped piece of paper (valentine wrapping paper) and placed in his car. At noon he'll get in the mail and it will have a note telling him to look in his car. (I'm being a bit of a "coward" here as I don't know how he'll react and so all this will be done will I'm at work.) Supper will be one of his favorites------
pot roast with *lots * of potatoes and carrots. Wonder what will happen??!!
- Dear Flycrew,
I wanted to let you know about a wonderful gift that my DH gave me one year before we got married. First, he picked me up to take me out to dinner. When he came to the door, he handed me a single red rose. After putting it in water, we went to the restaurant.
After we ate, we went to his house where he informed me that he had surprises for me hidden around the house. I began to look around and I soon found other single red roses with small gifts beside them. There was a teddy bear that DH made for me that came with a little story and said I love you when you squeeze the hand, a table covered with my favorite chocolates, etc...
After I found all the gifts, he told me how much me loved me and what I meant to him. (I was in big purple puddles of course!) No guy can go wrong with this idea! All the gifts were just small and simple, but I loved them and I remember it as the best Valentines Day that I have ever had. It was one of the sweetest things anyone has ever done for me!
FLYing in AL with my DH!
- One year my DH left a single carnation and card attached to my car's steering wheel so it was waiting for me when I left for work that morning and then when I switched on the ignition he had put a CD in that was set to play "How Do I Live Without You" by Leeann Womack - needless to say I sat there and just poured purple puddles while the song played.
- My DH LOVES chocolate, so every Valentine's Day I make him a special double decker chocolate, chocolate cake! It's not expensive to make and he loves it! One of the best recipes is right on the back of the Hershey's unsweetened cocoa can. A big kiss and you're favorite home made chocolate cake, what more could a man want! :-)
Flybaby in Illinois
- Dear FlyLady,
My husband has a gallon jar of assorted nails, washers, hinges, and fasteners. This year I will sort all my husband's loose screws, washers, and assorted hardware odds and ends into the baby food jars I have been collecting. I'm going to tape one of the items to the front of each jar with transparent (the old kind that isn't frosted) tape. I'm also going to paint the tops of the jars different colors for washers, wingnuts, bolts, etc.
I have enough jars, including some that may remain empty, to form a heart shape on a tray I covered with a pink striped pillowcase. After dinner, I'm going to ask him to help me cut the Valentine's Day "cake". I have a real cake, but I hope he'll like the baby food jar one just as much!
J in Virginia
- Flylady,
The best gift I ever gave my husbacn required some time, no money up front and limited resources all year long. I took 52 index cards, one for each week of the year, and made them into gift certificates. For example: I made 5 cards for backrubs, 5 for a favorite dessert, 5 for an afternoon of no interruptions during the football game, 5 for a favorite dinner...his choice, cards for doing his chores for him...I even made cards for cleaning his office at work, etc. I compiled all the cards and put them in a cute box. Each week he could redeem one card. The gift gave all year long. I loved doing it for him. We all need to do things for the ones we love without grumbling sometimes. He had fun deciding what special gift he wanted each week. He thinks it is time for this gift to be repeated!!!
Flying in West Chester
- Not sure how traditionally romantic this is however, for us it'll have special meaning.
I grew up near Disneyland and have wonderful, special memories of it. When DH flew out to CA to get me (long story) I insisted on one last fling to the Happiest Place on Earth. But we left late in the day and didn't get to spend the whole day there. But the time there was by far my best trip to Disneyland and with him made it truly magical.
This Valentine's Day I'm re-creating the best restaurant in Disneyland, the Blue Bayou. I'll serve their famous Monte Cristo sandwich, a pasta salad, homemade rolls, and cheesecake for dessert. DH's kids have never been to Disneyland but they'll go through imagination, the foundation of Disneyland. I have the Pirates of Carribean ride on CD to play while having dinner by candlelight, and get some pirate decorations from the dollar store. After dinner we'll play a family board game, then the kids can watch TV while DH and I retire to the bedroom with the bottle of champange where I'll continue the pirate theme playing the role of the wench. ;-)
Living a Pirate's life in MD.
- Dear Flycrew
Since my DH is laid off, we are doing a low key celebration this year. DH is planning a lovely dinner to cook. Afterward we are going dancing in our basement. My DH (for the past 4 years) picks out several songs that mean something to us. We have a glass of something nice and dance to the songs that he picks out. I am getting him a CD that he has been wanting for a little while but that he doesn't want to spend the money on.
- This may or not be romantic :-)
Every Valentines Day, our family has a romantic dinner together. We have steak, shrimp, baked potatoes, salad & veggie and a fabulous chocolate dessert. The candles are lit and the table is set with the best. We buy each of our 3 children a small gift, typically candy. This year I found cute stuffed animals that are tiny and say sweet things and a big Hershey bar for each of them.
My dh & I have found that we'd rather have a good, nice dinner at home than to fight the crowds at the restaurants.
Of course, the kids go to bed early, so dh & I can have our quiet time together!
Flybaby in VA
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My husband and I will enjoy a dress-up, 4 course candlelight dinner for 5.
It is a completely romantic dinner when my husband and I have the
opportunity to dine with our three daughter ages 4,6,& 8. We all have a
blast planning and preparing for the enchanted evening.
Flying in SD
- my sweetheart (husband of 20 yrs) loves it when i do things for him, and not spend $$. In Gary Chapman's well known book The Five Love Languages, this love language of doing things for your sweetie is called "acts of service". So, I make him a yummy breakfasts & dinners, fill his bird feeders, vac his car & windex the car windows, bring him hot tea, massage his back a little, carefully watch the words i choose around him; fix, sew or repair something of his, clean a corner of the garage, etc... Oh, and by the way, I don't announce these things..... I just quietly do them leading up to Valentines Day, then mention the things I did for him in his VD card. He loves being spoiled for the week, and likes seeing it in writing!! :)
- Last year DH cut the meat he served, the potatoes he made and the carrots in the salad into heart shapes. We dressed up and had a candlelight dinner. It was spectacular and very impressive.
This year, I am going to dress up in a new dress and pair of shoes that he picked out and fix my hair a special way that he likes it. I have also planned a special candlelight dinner for him this year - we are trying something new (lamb chops, couscous and spinach salad).
I don't know that I can top his heart shaped meal, but I am going to try my best.
Flybaby in AR
- My husband and I met while singing together on a worship team. We now sing professionally with his family. For Valentines I am recording a love song that I will then leave with a card in his car to hear for the first time.
- For Valentine's Day I've made arrangements for my husband and I to go on a dinner river cruise in a nearby city. We've never gone on one, but have always talked about wanting to go
- Dear Flylady,
I am still "flying" since Saturday evening when my dear hubby pulled off the most romantic early Valentine's date ever!
The anticipation all week was killing me as he never plans a night out totally in secret. We got all dressed up, suit, heels and all and off we went. We drove out of our driveway and then immediately turned into the second driveway behind our house. He said he had to show me something. I was beginning to steam at that moment. Here I had just washed the car for the occasion and he was driving through the February Thaw mud! To make matters worse, he parked next to our new camper, which we have grown to love, and asked me to get out. I am picturing me walking through the mud with my heels. I just wanted to get on with this date!
To my surprise, he had laid down a carpet over the mud from the car to the camper! He escorted me inside the camper where I was greeted by a table set with our best china, candlelight and roses!!! WOW. I was giddy. Top all that off with a tear jerker for a movie, cozy blankets and pillows, and it was the perfect romantic get away from the kids who were in the house with Grandma only 50 feet away.
Thanks for the opportunity to share the best Valentine's getaway we've ever had.
J in Wisconsin
- Since my hubby and I are soon closing on a new house, we are saving every penny. Thus, Valentine's Day doesn't get much from our budget. So, in an effort to save money, at a discount store I bought a dozen red balloons, a box of chocolates, and a bag of confetti for under $5. The plan is to sneak to the grocery early in the AM for helium and then to his office to have them waiting for him when he arrives in the morning.
Last year, I cut large hearts out of pink paper and wrote one thing I loved or appreciated about him on each. Then, Valentine's morning, I taped them all over our bedroom walls. (Luckily, he's a sound sleeper). He was surprised when he woke up and the walls were covered from floor to ceiling with hearts of appreciation!
Smiling & Flying
- I am painting a very very large paper mache box to keep all of his
'stuff and important papers' in next to his chair. Instead of being
pin-pointed as a 'hotspot' and having those precious workpapers,
calendars, appointment, business cards, etc being either scattered or
accidently thrown away *-- they can now go in his own beautiful box.
The romance comes in the messages and poems I am painting in the lid to
remind him how much I love him whenever he uses the box! I am using his
favorite colors and painting sailboats on it and looking forward to
replacing the 'trial and practice' box he has been using since I started
Flylady with this special and personal box of his own.
Fluttering in Monterey
- Last year I made my husband a valentine using the conversation heart candies. I wrote a story and glued the hearts in place of the words. For example...."When you asked me to marry you, I'm so glad I said "I DO" because you are my "True Love"...you get the idea. I also drew stick figures of he and I holding hands, using the "ME" and "YOU" hearts as labels. I had the valentine hanging on the mirror for him to see when he got out of the shower. He loved it.
I have also made a "Reason's Why I Love You" jar. I bought an inexpensive jar at a discount store, and filled it with slips of paper handwritten with all of things I love about him.
Hope these ideas help!!!
Happy Valentine's Day,
Pecking away at the shell in Ohio
- I bought mango scented sugar scrub for my husband, and I am planning on giving him a scrub (like a light massage) after our home-cooked, romantic, candlelight dinner.
Thanks for all you do for us, FlyCrew!
A Florida Flybaby
- About 15 years ago when money was tight, we didn't feel comfortable spending the money on dinner out, so I went out and bought a picnic blanket and a made a lovely picnic for two on our living room floor. I had all the picnic fixings, including fresh fruit and a nice inexpensive bottle of champagne. Our picnic also included romantic music and candlelight. This year we will again carry on the tradition of a Valentine's Day picnic, using our same picnic blanket!!
(This is also a nice break from the winter blahs.)
Flybaby in Sturbridge
- My daughter did this one. Without her DH's knowledge she rented a nice
motel room, went there and set up candles, a boom box w/ some nice CD's,
and a bottle of wine.
Then she hired a sitter for the night, picked her husband up at work,
took him out to dinner, and all during the dinner let him think they
were leaving to go get his car at the plant and go home.
Over dinner she gave him a card that said, "Let's spend more quality
time together."
When she turned the wrong direction leaving the resurant she told him
she had a quick errand to run. He never caught on until she turned into
the parking lot of the motel.
Needless to say, he was all smiles.
She had saved household money for a while to do this, but it was a MAJOR
hit with her DH.
- When asked, my husband wants to do something fun with me. I'm taking him to a Thai resturant (he loves, the kids hate LOL) and then to a local hockey game. Just us, no kids like the "old days"!
- I am sending a singing telegram. For $50 a quartet will sing 2 songs, bring a red rose and a box of chocolates to my sweetie, at her job. (A group in Albuquerque does this.) The proceeds go to breast cancer research, too! It'll be a fun memory and no clutter!
- Most would not consider this romantic, but my DH is an avid hunter. Every
year the men in his family go quail hunting in Texas......I found an auction
that sells shotguns and bought a gun for myself! I am going with him to
spend the weekend doing something he loves to do, and has always wanted to
share with me! His gift from me is spending time hunting with him. He is
sooo excited that I did that!
He is a fire fighter and I also got him a zippo lighter with the fire
department maltese cross on it and plan on having it engraved with his
favorite scripture, John 15:13 "Greater love has no one than this, that one
lay down his life for his friends." I am also going to put "343" for the
number of NYC fire fighters that gave their lives for others and our little
code of "143" for I love you.
- Dear Flylady,
Every year for Valentine's Day, I do a variation on
the same idea. Starting a week ahead of Feb. 14, I
leave my dh little surprises along with a home-made
coupon to be redeemed at a later time. For example, 2
years ago, on Monday I scrubbed his shower shiny, put
in a bottle of his favorite wash, and left a coupon
for a free back-scrubbin. On Tuesday, I gave him a
little thermos bottle with a coupon for fresh coffee
made for him for a week. On Wednesday, I filled a tin
with freshly baked cookies and a coupon for another
batch at the time of his choosing. And so on, up
until Valentine's Day, when I gave him a copy of The
Expectant Father with "I Love You" written on every
page. That was how and when I announced to him that
we were expecting our son, who is now 16 months old.
I don't think I'll ever top that. But he still looks
forward to his daily gift and coupon.
Thanks for helping me fly,
J in Wisconsin
- Dear Flylady,
My sweetie & I went to see Lion King at the theater. We both wanted to see it, and we got seats in the orchestra. We said that this was our gift to each other. We also bought a bottle of wine, & just the 2 of us had it with strawberries dipped in sugar free dark chocolate truffle sauce. Yummmm.
flying in Glendale, AZ
- we have to do ours a week late because we both work the weekend of the 12th - we're going to Eureka Springs for a spa weekend, stay in a nice hotel and do some R&R since he has been working 12 hours a day for almost 2 weeks now with no days off. (I'm going to look for chocolate covered strawberries and be thankful that I don't have to cook. He'll be glad just to not have to work and he can cuddle with his DW!!)
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My guy and I agreed to go "low-budget" for this Valentine's Day. Thus, I am going to make a booklet of coupons he can redeem at various times. A cone from our favorite ice cream store; a massage; a free day from doing the laundry; a night when I'll prepare dinner (and make it extra romantic); a foot rub; a night-in with movie rental and take-out...and other ideas such as this.
I have only been with FlyLadies now for a few weeks and am really enjoying the freedom I feel from keeping up with my chaos. Having the house clean and tidy allows me to keep my brain focused and relaxed - the most important thing to me!
Thank you!
Flybaby
- Ok, this may not sound super romantic, but I am
planning on giving my DBF a 3 month gift subscription
to Netflix, so we can rent movies and spend time
together during the cold. He's been wanting to join,
and it will help us in our quest to avoid all those
late fees we get when we forget to return our videos!
We like to watch movies while we work on mount
washmore (our machines are in the basement of our apt.
building), and now we will always have a few on hand
to watch! I'm making it only 3 months, because in the
spring, we hope to be taking more walks and doing
outdoors activities. And of course, no clutter.
A less costly and more romantic alternative: A few
years ago, I gave him a canister full of red
construction paper hearts, each stating something that
I love about him.
-Flybaby in Brooklyn, NY
- Right now, my husband is away, and won't be here for Valentine's Day. In fact, he won't be home until May, as he is deployed. But, the one thing that I am going to do for him, or to him, is to buy a really sexy pair of underwear, spritz it with my perfume, and send it to him. Hopefully, he will love it, and it won't drive him too crazy!
- My DH usually puts our toddler to bed so while he's doing that I'm going to set up a surprise candlelight picnic (on the living room floor - which is now clean, thanks to you Flylady! lol) I'd like it outside, but it's snowy and cold here - and make s'mores...which, incidentally, can be made by roasting marshmellows over candles...takes a while but it's fun! (And one of his favourites.) Probably try to find something special to wear for the occasion. And who knows what surprises HE'LL have planned for the evening? :)
- He's getting a massage/back rub (from me) with a special thick massage lotion
- his favorite - with eucalyptus and spearmint that reminds us both of a pine
forest. The lights will be low (I don't do candles) because I keep one
strand of either red or multi-colored Christmas lights up in our bedroom through
Valentine's Day. I can't wait!
- Dear Fly Crew,
My husband and I will be married 7 years this coming June. In the State of Arkansas, you have the option of signing a marriage covenant when you apply for your license. The marriage covenant was not around when we were married. A few weeks ago, my husband and I changed our marriage license to a covenant marriage ( it raises the standard and commitment). We are renewing our vows to one another on Valentine's Day along with thousands of others at Alltel Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas. We both new on our wedding day that the vows before the Lord and our friends and family were sacred and forever. After almost 7 years of marriage, job changes, moves, children, problems, in-laws and many joyous times the vows that we have made to each other is even more precious and meaningful than before ( when we thought every day was going to be bliss!). We are really looking forward to our children DD's 3 and 5 being with us as we renew our commitment to each other and our family. Blessings to you and your family!
Even my heart is soaring!
Little Rock, Arkansas
- I am taking my sweet DH to Mexico for a week starting Thursday through Valentines and we will return on Wednesday. We have our lives in so much better shape than in all of our 14 years of marriage before. Before I found you and this system this never, I repeat never, would have been possible. Our two ds are staying the week with my mother and I am looking so foward to some special time with my sweetie.
I thank you for that!
I started in May 2002!
Thanks for all you do,
A Washington Flybaby
- My husband and I have been married 7 & 1/2 years, but our 10th dating
anniversary was February 4th. Our first date was a concert and dinner at
Denney's (because my blood sugar dropped really fast after the concert and
that was the only place open). We are sort of combining our dating
anniversary and Valentine's Day by going to a concert on the 10th. This
time I am taking DH to our favorite steak place before the show and I will
also give him a bottle of his favorite cologne (he's almost out). Both of
those things are things that he really enjoys so I know it will be a hit!
Flying Pharmer in OK
- I am sending my husband a single red rose to my husband at his office.
- When DD was in college and I was working temp jobs, on Valentine's Day I was off. I
made fried chicken, cole slaw and an iced heart-shaped cake. I put them in a basket
lined with a checked cloth and took them to the machine shop where DH worked as a
surprise lunch. He was thrilled and his buddies were impressed. I left the cake for them
to finish.
I usually make cookies for DH and put on saucy Valentine lingerie in the evening since
DD now has her own home. You can get some cute, cheap ones at Walmart these days.
It doesn't take much to delight a man. Show up naked; bring beer.
- Hello FlyCrew,
Thank you so much for this website! I have so much hope in my house now!
I'm not sure what I'm doing this year for DH but last Valentine's Day instead of the usual going to a restaurant and waiting 2 hours for a table I took the kids to Grandma's house to spend the night (it was actually the weekend following Valentines Day which made it even more surprising and didn't interfere with Grandma & Grandpa's Valentine's Day). After the kids were out I scattered rose petals leading from the front door to the bedroom and all over the bed, then I put a red light bulb in the porch light so he would think "Huh?" when he got home and then I proceeded to light candles all around the house, put on music and dressed in my best lingerie all the way to the shoes I might add (high heels). He was very pleasantly surprised to walk in and have me greet him dressed like that with a drink all ready for him. For dinner I made filet mignon, stuffed mushrooms and steamed crab legs dipped in a fondue pot filled with melted butter. For desert there was another fondue pot with chocolate and an assortment of berries (strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries) and champagne. We had a very romantic evening right in the comfort of our own home. I don't know how I'll top that this year but I'll certainly do what I can to make him feel special.
Have fun everyone!
Love,
California Flybaby
- Bake him a chocolate cake, maybe a Boston Cream Pie, in the shape of a heart.
- Dear Flylady and friends,
One of the best gifts I gave my husband was several years ago. He loved it and all of his friends/coworkers were jealous.
I had one long-stemmed red rose sent to his work place. The card said, "Holiday Inn 5:00 pm" Enclosed in the card was a room key. Lots of whistles and raised eyebrows, but he had a big grin on his face all afternoon.
I had packed our suitcase, and checked in early to take a bubble bath before he got there. Candles, drinks, chocolate, dinner pre ordered from room service for a certain time.
It was a little pricey but worth it :0), but the idea could be adapted to less expense. A Valentines he's never forgotten and clutter free!
- Every year on V.D. my DH hates to go out, so I honor that by fixing a romantic dinner just for the 2 of us. I have been doing this since our kids were small. They are now 15, 18 and 20. One year they even served as waiters! I fix a simple, yet elegant meal and use the china, crystal and candles in the dining room of course! I dress up in something special, just as if we were going out and play some romantic music. We usually end up dancing and last year I borrowed a c.d. with a lyric book and background music and sang to him. We don't worry too much about gifts, we just enjoy the time together. We will be married 25 years this year!
Illinois (flybaby of 6 weeks)
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