Happy Valentines Day!

This is my Valentine to William



I also made him Ghirardelli chocolate truffles with pecan coating.

He got me this : (Super yummy!)



I am sad to see so many people saying "Don't call it Valentine's Day, call it Single's Awareness day" Even if you are single you should not be sad about it. My friend Ashley put it eloquently "I have 364 others days of the year to be depressed about being single"

I know it is a commercial holiday, of course it is! What holiday isn't?!?! Enjoy Valentines day for love and if not love for discount chocolate the day after.

I remember reading this version of the story and always liking this explanation:

"Valentine [was]a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single. The Emperor supposedly did this to grow his army, believing that married men did not make for good soldiers. The priest Valentine, however, secretly performed marriage ceremonies for young men. When Claudius found out about this, he had Valentine arrested and thrown in jail. In an embellishment to The Golden Legend, on the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he wrote the first "valentine" himself, addressed to a young girl variously identified as his beloved, as the jailer's daughter whom he had befriended and healed, or both. It was a note that read "From your Valentine."

In another apparently modern embellishment, while Valentine was imprisoned, people would leave him little notes, folded up and hidden in cracks in the rocks around his cell. He would find them and offer prayers for them." From wikipedia

I also remember they would bring him flower petals and chocolates to keep his spirits up.

Either way try to think Valentines day as a good day, or at least not a bad one.