Valentines day comith

My wife and I think that Valentines day is a great day.  We don't really participate in the traditional sense.  You know flowers,  extravagant gifts and dinner n a restaurant. 
Flowers we don't give especially roses because the growers jack the prices through the roof just because they can.  Some times as much as tripling the normal price.
Extravagant gifts because out love for each other is the best gift of all and you cant even buy it at a mall.
Going out to eat on Valentines usually always over crowded with people that are only out because they think that that is the way to show their lover this how mush they love them.  I say WRONG.

Valentines Day was invented by Hallmark and shopping stores,  maybe there is a holiday mafia out there that is in control of the media airwaves to guilt us into behavior that can leave us broke and disappointed in the end. 

I know many of you think that I am being cynical.  I am not.  I am  a hopeless romantic,  I try to show my love for my wife and children all year not on just one day.  I try to do things daily to show how my heart feels for them.

If you are married,  in a relationship or a parent take a few minutes each day and try to do something that will show your loves how you care.  It doesn't have to be a big over the top gesture I think that the smaller ones mean more because they are usually spontaneously out of the heart.  For your children drop a note
telling them how proud  you are of them and how you cant wait to see them after school, into their lunch box or backpack.  For your wife or husband do the same drop a note in the fridge or in their favorite coffee mug telling them how appreciative you are for their hard work and dedication to you and the family. 

Learn how to make your lovers Favorite meal.  Small things over a period of time will make a bigger impact in the long run. 

So I guess what I am rambling about is i like the idea of valentines day but I think that we should practice it all year long for the ones we love.