Valentine’s Day,Full of Love.

     It is a day for lovers.Well ,I am still single now,so I can not taste the happiness.Love is a permanent topic all over the world,because we have to create a family.So a man will show love to a woman,and love is produced.Very romantic!

     I am not very familiar with the history of this festival.So I cut some words from wikipedia.org.Valentine’s Day or Saint Valentine’s Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the English-speaking countries, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine’s cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery. The holiday is named after two among the numerous Early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.

     The day is most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of “valentines”. Modern Valentine symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards. The sending of Valentines was a fashion in nineteenth-century Great Britain, and, in 1847, Esther Howland developed a successful business in her Worcester, Massachusetts home with hand-made Valentine cards based on British models. The popularity of Valentine cards in 19th century America, where many Valentine cards are now general greeting cards rather than declarations of love, was a harbinger of the future commercialization of holidays in the United States.

     The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year, behind Christmas. The association estimates that, in the US, men spend on average twice as much money as women.

     That is really a long introduction.Then what will you (not a single)do on Valentine’s Day?I get some answers:

     1)Invite some friends over and have a seafood dinner.

     2)My boyfriend usually gets me a bouquet of roses and balloons.He also takes me out to dinner or lunch depending on our work schedules.
One year I baked him some heart shaped cookies.I frosted them and put sprinkles on them.Can you believe his brother complained that he (the brother) didn’t like sprinkles.He asked me to not use them”next time”.Can you believe that?!I told him if he wants cookies to his liking he should get a girlfriend of his own.Not a funny story but that’s what comes to mind when I think of V day.