At the Blind Pig house we’ve never celebrated Valentines Day very much. There’s been the occasional candy, card, meal, or flowers over the years, but most of the time we don’t do anything nor even say Happy Valentines.
But I have written about love and the special day for it often over the years. Here’s some posts for you to visit.
- The Cake of Love
- A Crazy Love Story
- Kin = Love
- Apple Pies & Love
- My Favorite Love Song
- A Valentine in the Woods
- Love Jerry
On this day for love, I’m wishing you a Happy Valentines Day. I kin you!
Last night’s video: The BEST Pumpkin Bread & Helping a Friend in Need.
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Happy Valentine’s Day! We do celebrate Valentine’s Day. It’s also our wedding anniversary. We were married Valentine’s Day in 1964 so this was our 60th anniversary. We usually do something to celebrate our anniversary but this year we simply stayed at home. I’m doing all the driving now so only do country roads and during daylight hours. Our daughter and son-in-law live on the other side of the world temporarily and knew we were staying home. Somehow they managed to have a prime rib dinner, pie and a big bouquet of red roses delivered to us. Our son and daughter-in-law live nearby. They are taking us out to dinner this weekend to celebrate. It’s wonderful to be loved.
I would like to wish you a happy Valentine’s Day. Chuck and I usually exchange valentine cards and Chuck takes me for a nice dinner. He used to buy me some sort a jewelry til I told him he didn’t have to do it. I know he loves me and doesn’t have to prove it very Valentine’s Day.
Please wish Granny a happy Valentine Day for me. I look at her like my own Granny! I hope she doesn’t mind without my asking. God bless everyone in your family. Hilary H
Happiest of Valentine’s Day to all. As many, our day is relatively low key with a card, sometimes a meal locally, and any gifting small unique and/or tasty items all enjoy. As we are in our eighties, myself almost 87, we have been fortunate to travel, see, and enjoy things we would have never dreamed of when we started our life’s journey together in the “marryin’ capitol” of the south in Ringgold, GA. This journey has “been a hoot” and everyday is now a gift. From our treasured “hills and hollers” of Appalachia to several unusual destinations around the world have given us much to be thankful for! Life has been good! Again, Happy Valentine’s Day to all!
Today, Valentines Day is our 56th wedding anniversary. We celebrate Valerntines and our anniversary in one day. Happy Valentines Day Tipper, Matt, Corie, Katie,Austiin, Granny and Paul.
Jill – Happy Anniversary to you and yours.
Thank you Bre.
My husband and I are kind of like you and Matt when it comes to Valentine’s Day. We’ve never been big on celebrating it. In ways I think it’s kind of sad that it takes a day like Valentine’s Day to make some people remember a loved one. I sort of feel like in the almost 50 years we’ve been together we celebrate our love for each other every day by the special little things we do for each other. I guess that’s what marriage is all about and after 50 years you pretty much know what to do to make your special sweetie feel special. I think today I’ll be giving a few extra pecks on the cheek and will fix a favorite meal tonight.
Happy Valentine’s Day to you, Matt and the girls. Hope you have a wonderful day.
Lots of Love to you all !!!
Happy Valentine’s Day! We never celebrate, either. I remember buying those bags of little valentines when I was in elementary school, but haven’t done anything much since. I guess I’ve always felt like it was more important to share love for my family and friends every day.
My favorite is Pap’s letter. I’ve seen it on here a time or two and it tears me up a little every time read it.
Happy Valentine’s Day to my favorite internet family.
Happy Valentine’s Day to you and your family. ❤️
Happy Valentine’s Day! Several years have gone by since my husband (Valentine) passed into Heaven. Our celebration was usually a home cooked candle light dinner consisting of pasta and some decadent dessert. These days I write a love story on my blog to celebrate the day. Blessings to you and your family for this day of love and for the blessings of the babies to come later this year! Thanks for sharing.
Happy Valentine’s Day to all of the BP&A gang.
Tipper your pumpkin bread recipe looks awesome.
God bless the Pressley and Wilson families.
Prayers continue for sweet and precious Granny.
Happy Valentine’s Day to all! May you all have someone to love, past, present or yet to come. More importantly I pray you all know or will come to know the only One that loves us all unconditionally. “For God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him, should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16. God loves us all, no matter what, even if you haven’t come to know His Son Jesus as your savior. God loves you. God sent His Son Jesus out of pure love for us all, so we all can have a way to have a true one on one relationship with Him for eternity. All we have to do is admit we need God, believe Jesus died on the cross for our wrongs and rose form death physically on the third day to give us eternal spiritual life and then confess Jesus is our Lord and Savior. Only then can we truly know unconditional, everlasting, true Love.
Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone!!!
I used to work with a guy who did Elvis impersonations who treated all the girls in his office to his version of Pledging My Love on Valentine’s Day. The songwriter surely must have been in love when he put those lyrics together. I miss sending my young grandsons flirty Valentine’s Day cards and signing them guess who. They caught on quickly.
Happy Valentine’s Day to every single last one of you! I so enjoyed reading all the comments and I agree with so many. It’s not the big things or the little things, it is the everyday loving of each other and treating everyone special just because you love them or respect them, or just be nice because it is the right thing to do. If we make it til the end of June this year, we will be married 50 years and it doesn’t seem like it. Like Randy, we married as teenagers and now we are almost 70. Gosh, that sounds like we are old…hahaha. Everyone be kind and nice and love each other and look out for each other. That’s not too much to ask, is it? Love and prayers to Granny and Little Mamas and all of you.
I’ve never heard “kin” used as meaning love or understanding. I’ve only heard used referring to a relative. I wonder which usage was first. I kin you and your family because you seem like kinfolks to me!
In German, the verb for knowing or being familiar with a person is ‘kennen’. It carried over into version of English – especially Scottish and Irish versions – as ‘ken’. For example, someone might respond to something told them by saying, “I ken ye.” The spelling was often ‘kin’ but well understood in context. Interestingly, the German for knowing a fact is a different verb: wissen. IME, the 2 verbs are frequently missed used in everyday use, though.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentines Day to everyone! I hope everyone has a very blessed day full of love ❤️
Well, after a bit over 70 years I am just now learning that the glue that holds the world together is love. We would not have lasted anywhere near this long had there not been love. Nor can we continue without it. But love is much more than person-to-person. It encompasses love for creation and the love of creating. And it is the “bottom dollar” of value because it makes “little things” priceless. Love makes every day Valentine’s Day and is the single best key to redeeming time.
Sending all my love to the Pressleys and to Granny and Paul. In two days, one of my granddaughters is visiting me from another state and bringing her first baby and my first great grandchild, Elijah, whom I have never met. This will surely be the best Valentine’s Day gift of my life. God bless you all.
Happy Valentine’s day
Valentine’s Day is just another excuse to bilk a person of the little money they may have and GUILT TRIP them they aren’t enough or say enough or do enough every other day of the year! I say EVERY day a person should try their best to be nice to all the people in their house-not just mark one day for romance or love! I think that’s a pretty tall order (considering some of my relatives) so it’s about all I can do IF I can at all! Happy Valentine’s Day to everybody cause the BP&A crowd are ALL sweet hearts! Get better GRANNY cause you are an angel heart among us!!!
Sadie, you are right. All the special ‘days’ are meant to drum up commerce, including Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day and all the rest. Even Christmas – the day we should celebrate Christ’s birth – has been taken over by commercial interests; so much so that you see Christmas items in stores 3 months before the event. It’s a shame, but you have to remember that human intelligence follows a normal distribution which means, statistically, that half the people in the world are below average, making them more susceptible to being parted from their money by special ‘days’.
I must be in that category because I bought my bride of 63 years a chocolate Valentine’s cake. She gave me a card . . . in Spanish.
Hearts, flowers, candy and love. I kin y’all, not only on Valentine’s Day, but always. May God bless y’all too.
Our 49 th anniversary will be Feb 22. Being so close to Valentines we dont do much in a big way on Valentines but always celebrate our anniversary with going out to eat or get away somewhere. This year we will stay at B&b on Lookout Mtn. We are blessed
While we never celebrated big, my husband always brought me yellow tulips and a card. We always had a little candy heart for our 3 children. When they were in grade school the entire class exchanged cards which I also.loved when I was in school
I was in grade school shortly after WWII ended. Our teachers got old-fashioned cardboard hat boxes and covered them in crepe paper, usually pink, and wrapped them with a big red bow. A slot was cut in the top so we could put our Valentine cards in them. I remember that we could buy packages of cards that could be punched out. Most often, there was a a place on the back to write who the cards were for and who they were from. I was always too shy to put my name in the ‘from’ box. The girls made a game out of figuring out who the anonymous cards were from. I think 3rd or 4th grade saw the end of that.
Happy Valentines Day to everyone here!
Valentine’s Day is every day for us. We don’t do anything big, just cards and we go out to eat sometimes on the day of or before or after. Just depends on what we decide to do.
We love you!
We do a couple simple traditions that our little ones have come to look forward to every February. I make my usual biscuit & gravy recipe but cut the biscuits into hearts and put it on little Valentine paper plates. And my husband comes home from work with a box of chocolates for everyone to share and some flowers for the girls. We all pick a chocolate each night after supper until the box runs out. The kids get so excited about it starting Feb 1st and it’s become just a simple, sweet tradition. Hope you all have a great day.
L- That is so simple and so sweet. Your children will always remember your little tradition. I have valentine paper plates to use for lunch with my grandbabies today.
I love the phrase, “I kin ya”. I have never used it or heard of it, but it is sweet just the same. We don’t do any big celebrating of Valentines Day either, but I like to do little things just for fun. I did crochet cute little mini animals for my grandchildren this year and also made them a tiny treat bag of candy. I gave them the surprises this past weekend, and they all just loved their little stuffies. Yesterday, hubby and I visited our parents and dropped them off tiny treat bags of candy too. I just love spoiling them, as they are all in their 80’s and love their sweets. Then he took me out to a nice little lunch, which he declared our “valentine” meal, since today we will be taking care of our three youngest grand babies. We always take care of them each Wednesday while both parents work a long ten-hour shift. I look forward to baking with them today. I have decided we would make some red velvet cupcakes and put some pretty pink colored sugar on top of the icing. Maybe we can deliver a couple to our neighbor and definitely save some for mommy and daddy, as red velvet is their daddy’s favorite cake. I had better get dressed because they will be here soon, and life gets very busy then. Happy Valentines Day everyone…and, Tipper, you know we all kin you too!
You know I gotta try that pumpkin bread recipe…I do have some of your beloved Black Walnuts but I will probably used my Pecans. I wondered about those loaf pans and think I will stick with my metal ones. Prayers still for Granny and God’s Blessing you guys.
We are so blessed to be kinned by you! Thank you for sharing stories of your family’s life that help us better understand and cherish our own. Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️
Happy Valentines Day to everyone! I have already been awake for an hour waiting on 4 o’clock to see today’s post. I read the old one titled My Favorite Love Song, it was when We Young Maggie. All of the regular members know my story, I have told it many times. If my wife had lived this year would have been our 50th wedding anniversary. We were teenagers when we married. Like Tipper said, we never made a big deal out of Valentines Day or the other so called special days. Next week, I will be 70 years old and I lay here like now and look back to when we were young and newly married and think about how fast the years went by. Now at 70 years old I realize it is all down hill now until I reach that dead end at the bottom. I think my favorite love song would be “Precious and Few.” I never got to spend as much time with her as I wanted too until we both retired and then it only lasted 7 months. We didn’t need to do big things, just being together doing the simple things of everyday life was enough for us to be happy. Just as soon as it gets daylight, I intend to take a chair, go to her grave and sit there for a while today.
Oh! Randy your Valentine’s story is so very precious and sweet. Happy Valentine’s Day. God bless you.