It's Saturday Night -
time for more Genealogy Fun!
Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing
has our assignment for tonight:
Valentine's Day
was yesterday, 14 February... Your mission, should you
decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to:
1) Recall a memory of a Valentine's Day in your life. Is it the first love of your life? A special day with your lover, spouse or significant other? Do you have a picture of a Valentine's Day event, or a special Valentine that you received, to share.
2) Describe your Valentine's Day memory, activity and/or image in a blog post of your own, a comment to this blog post, or in a comment/post on Facebook.
3) Have fun remembering a special day.
I
have no real memories of love interests that concern Valentine’s Day. My best
memories of Valentine’s Day were during elementary school when we would buy
small cards, sign our name, and drop them off in the decorated box in the
classroom. Everyone gave cards and everyone received them. Two classmates were
in charge of delivering the cards to everyone.
When
my mother was room mother, she always decorated an apple or orange cardboard
box she likely got from my father, who worked in the produce department at the
local grocery store, LoRay. The boxes were covered in red, white, and pink
paper, and had lacy doilies, cupid cut-outs, and hearts pasted to them. My
mother’s boxes were beautiful!
I
sure wish I had a photo of one of the boxes she made. I tried searching on
Pinterest for samples, but all of those boxes are too small.
The
valentines we put in may have been store-bought, but nothing like today’s cards
with commercial superheroes, Hello Kitty, or Barbie. They had cute kitties,
puppies, hearts, and balloons.
There
would be a class party with cupcakes, punch, and maybe those candied hearts
with silly sayings: Be Mine, Forever Yours, etc.
It
was lots of fun before boys and girls got too serious about each other.
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I have those same kind of memories. I had forgotten about all the decorated Valentine boxes for students to put their cards in. Those parties were a lot of fun.
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