Valentines Day 💕💕

How many people celebrate this holiday? I’m not sure but based on my Instagram and Facebook it’s 99.9% of my friend group. I’m all for it. I think it’s fun and silly but I also want to make sure my person knows he’s loved every other day of the year as well.

This year I honestly decided to skip Valentines. It’s not that I’m not in a stable committed relationship with someone I love, it’s that every year there is so much pressure that when something inevitably doesn’t go as planned it makes the whole thing feel ruined. If you didn’t get the perfect gift or receive it. If you wanted flowers and you got chocolates. If the restaurant screws up your order. There are too many variables and the pressure is unreal. It has to be the perfect day. Well I hate to be the negative one but it’s never perfect. So this year Grant and I decided to stay in, watch a movie on the couch and order take out, no presents, no pressure, no expectations.

We both worked during the day. I was off before Grant so I grabbed a bath bomb and headed to my bathroom for a little self care because why not love yourself on Valentines Day. (Full disclosure I used the intergalactic lush bath bomb and it was heavenly.) Then I deep conditioned my hair. I got out of the shower and I felt fantastic. Really relaxed and ready to enjoy my night.

When Grant got home we decided to grab Red Lobster take out. (Maybe a bad idea in hindsight, their website was down and we waited on hold for twenty minutes before we placed our order.) then a solid hour later we were in our PJs deciding what movie to watch. We picked Two Weeks Notice. Grant has never seen it and I think it’s a perfect rom com. As we go to unpack the food we realize they forgot an item or two. We did try to call them and get it fixed but after twenty minutes on hold we got “disconnected”. Now previous years this would’ve killed me. It would’ve ruined my image of a perfect valentines. This year it was just fuck it. We’ll call them tomorrow.

We ate our seafood and watched Two Weeks Notice laughing and enjoying it. After dinner we had three different Bundt cakes to share ( marble, peanut butter chocolate chip and white chocolate raspberry) paired with a nice bottle of wine. Grant went with red and I had white. We’re munching on dessert so why not just pick what we wanted.

After that the three of us got all cuddled on the couch and just watched other tv and relaxed.

It wasn’t a typical Valentines for us. It was downplayed and just enjoyed. (I did get my fill on Valentine’s candy when I ran out on Saturday and bought a bunch for 50-75% off!) I’m not sure if this will become our new norm or not but for this year there wasn’t unreal expectations and pressure. I must admit I loved that.