By: Cathy Creach
Quickly approaching is Valentine’s Day! I LOVE Valentine’s Day – planning small gifts for each of my family. The anticipation of sharing with them my love is a blessing to me. I not only get something for my husband, but I also put together small gift baskets for each of my kids. I suppose the desire to share with my kids comes from my mother. One year after moving to Spokane from Tulsa, I received a Valentine’s box with homemade cookies. The tradition has been carried on to my own children who live at home and away.
{This week I have mailed two boxes to the “away” kids… one to Oklahoma and one to New York.}
I just have to finish working on the local kids.
Can you keep a secret? Sshhh… don’t tell Alan. This year I have different plans for him. I read this article about 14 days and thought it would be cool! Except when I started planning it, I decided that 7 days was long enough. This reminds me of when we were in college. Our college group at church did a secret saint and drew names. My roommate drew Alan’s name so of course I talked her into exchanging names with me. It was so fun to give him gifts as a secret saint and then act jealous when he told me about it. I must have done a good job at acting, because when I told him that I was his secret saint he didn’t believe me.
So far this year he has gotten… chocolate, a coffee gift card and fruit. He once again is trying to make me jealous, and I am playing along. I think he is on to me, but I’ll keep the act up.
What will you do for your loved one’s this year! It is never too late to start a loving tradition of giving!
The Plant Farm 