Valentine bathing beauty

This year’s “Valentimes” Day card features robots. Aren’t they cute? I also received an exquisite “Be mine” necklace 🤣, a fancy dark chocolate bar, and a dollar bill. I’m rich! I reciprocated with a box of Kilwin’s chocolates and a special limited edition bag of Roos Roast (local coffee brewer) *Bourbon* Butter Love coffee beans. Utility coffee for me is Roos Roast *Lobster* Butter Love but the GG buys good old 8-o’clock Coffee when he is over at Kroger supplying himself and FlaMan with provisions.

I mostly don’t have bad memories of grade school Valentine parties. I don’t remember not getting a full box of Valentine cards. I don’t remember (or even know) if other kids were shorted or not. I *definitely* put one in every other kid’s box. The Commander would have killed me otherwise. I do remember being very careful about which card I gave to who. Will Nancy be offended if I give her a card with a bubble bath on it? I hope Steve doesn’t misinterpret my card to mean I like him like him. (’cause I don’t, even though Steve likes me likes me. (And my moom was not one of his fans, cue up Leader of the Pack… (But I was in FIRST GRADE…)))

In first grade, I somehow missed that I was supposed to decorate a shoebox for collecting cards until the 11th hour. I was my parents’ first child and maybe The Comm didn’t know either. I was totally freaked out and had a big tantrum but my moom came to the rescue with some fancy white tissue paper with purple flowers on it and doilies and I fergit what else. I was terrified that my box wasn’t RED, which for some reason I thought was one of the “rules” for Valentine boxes. My mom was quite artistic and she made a beautiful box for me and wouldn’t you know, the teacher GUSHED over the white/purple box and even called over some other nearby teachers to look at it. (Thank you mom)

Last but definitely not least, today is my lovely (late) mother-in-law’s birthday. She would be 99. Here she is on a bote in the Detroit River. That’s a Royal Canadian Mounted Police vee-hickle parked behind so they must have been hanging out on the Canadian side. Best mother-in-law ever. Well, only mother-in-law for me but honestly why would I have wanted to divorce the GG when I’d already won the mother-in-law roulette. Ten children, nineteen grandchildren and I’m not gonna count great-grandchildren tonight 🐸

One Response to “Valentine bathing beauty”

  1. Margaret Says:

    My goodness, she is gorgeous; I thought she was an actress or model. I remember the shoe boxes and the fear of not getting very many Valentines. I think it’s required now to give everyone a care or no one.