Red Day

We enjoyed Valentine's Day this year. We started our celebrating the night before Valentine's Day at our church's Valentine's banquet. The youth serve at the banquet to make money for mission trips. The idea is to tip your waiters, but you can also pay money to have someone do something funny. Only five minutes after sitting down, one of our tablemates had his silverware taken from him. He then had to pay to get his silverware back. Wes received a giant Mexican sombrero complete with dangly decorations that he had to wear while eating dinner. We had to scrounge up some money to have a waiter take it to someone else to wear. The highlight of the evening was when Wes was forced to sing to me in front of all of the diners. A lady at our table got the idea for him to sing and she would not give it up. She wrote down the chorus of "Your Song" by Elton John and made BOTH OF US go up to the front of the fellowship hall. I had to sit while Wes got down on one knee and sang to me. He was such a good sport about it, and his singing was as great as ever.
On Valentine's Day, Wes brought beautiful yellow roses to school. I think yellow roses are so pretty; Wes knew that I liked them so much better than red roses. My students were so sweet to me, and I have enough chocolate to keep me sated for a few years. Two of my students even brought me Peanuts-themed chocolates. (Those are the Peanuts of the Snoopy/Charlie Brown variety, not the peanuts that George Washington Carver is famous for). The best gift of all from one of my students was a.....SALAD from Zaxby's!!! If you know me at all, you know that salads are my kryptonite. It was such a sweet gesture, but I didn't know what to do. I worked really hard to act like I was immensely enjoying my salad, but I'm afraid that I just didn't fake it well enough.
When I got home from school, Wes and I exchanged gifts. He surprised me with a Little Women house to go with my Literary Classics collection. My set is almost complete now! I was even more surprised by tickets to see Michael Buble in Charlotte! I can't wait! Wes and I don't really like to go to a fancy restaurant on Valentine's Day, so we cooked a quick meal at home. Then we went on our favorite Valentine's Day outing - we went to the Clemson basketball game. We did this two years ago on our first Valentine's Day together, and we were so excited to do it again. Clemson beat Georgia Tech by enough that the scrubs even got to play. This was probably the best and least stressful Valentine's Day we've had yet!