Valentine’s Day

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 SAINT VALENTINE’S Day

I don’t think anyone in my family had ever heard of this day.
I do recall that while I was still on our honeymoon my husband  Wayne asked me what was going on with the florist decorations and what was Valentine’s Day that they all seemed to be advertising, my answer to him was that the florists and greeting card people in Australia had recently jumped on the idea and promoted it as a way to make extra money in the quite time before Mother’s Day. He asked me if I wanted him to send me flowers for that day, I reminded him of my stance about flowers purchased from florist shops, as I was one of the florists who had to promote extra sales for special occasions, and I didn’t want any money spent on flowers. So my husband has never purchased flowers 💐 for me in the 46 years we have been married.

He has purchased other things but never cut flowers.

We both have an agreement that neither of us want purchased flowers on our coffins when we need one! I had said that if he can find a few kangaroo paw I would love them and we have a number growing in our garden, so we both just need to make sure we don’t go during their non flowering time of the year.
Valentines Day to us is just another imported money making day for newsagents, florists and gift shops. I even saw an advertisement for Aldi who want to sell everyone a bunch of 50 roses, every one wants to get in on the act!

This may just be the opening lines as I will be consciously looking for a true Valentine family story to put in here.

But perhaps our story should be here as we are already someones ancestors!

Well this continues the story my husband bought me flowers! That is the vase of flowers he gave me on our 50th anniversary this year. I know why he did it! We were in church and he was listening to a lady say just how much she loved receiving flowers and what joy they bought her, I glanced at Wayne and I could almost see his brain ticking over, the following Thursday a large box arrived for me, it was a terribly hot day and in the box was some lovely flowers, a glass vase, a card some long life powder, and a block of melted chocolate, which very quickly went in the fridge. I arranged the flowers in the vase added the long life powder and read the lovely message in the card, it read today, forever and always love Wayne. 
There were some minor flowers, white lilies, red roses and gold sim carnations for our 50th anniversary. 
He broke his promise but he was forgiven, it’s a long while since I have been a florist. I spoke to the lady who talked about wanting flowers and told her she was the reason he broke his promise, she was happy about that. 
I still have some of the flowers because the roses and carnations died and dried out so the heads are in the cupboard with our special items that remind us of our love for each other. 
I hope more people find and enjoy the long lasting love I have found. 


 

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