For years, bouquets of  red roses with baby’s breath seemed trite to me for Valentine’s Day and an obscene amount of money just because it’s a holiday.  I couldn’t lay that kind of tacky and expensive pressure on my sweetie pie.  Anything BUT red roses spoke to me.  A homemade Valentine or even a conversational candy heart could make me misty eyed.  SWEET!  The way I think the holiday was intended.

Hubby is hubby because we agreed we aren’t the flashy-broadcast Valentine types.  We like to make a nice dinner at home with our boys, sharing some kind of bubbles in champagne flutes. “Grape” for the grown-ups and “apple” for the guys.

Fast forward a bazillion years, I kind of changed my mind.  Retro ways are making a comeback like hand-crank beaters and mason jars.  Why not an old-fashioned Valentine too, like red roses?  It kind of helps a bunch is only $12 at Trader Joes. Simple and sweet, no baby’s breath.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

My new, old-fashioned favorite.

 

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