During college, my mom sent me a Valentine’ Day card. It read:
Happy Alentine’s Ay.
On the inside, it read:
Try and keep the VD out of it.
She wrote on the card saying that it was a “knee slapper” and a “hoot” and I should show it to my friends so they could get a good laugh. I didn’t show it around. In fact, I hid it immediately in the bottom drawer of my desk (I have trouble throwing cards away – don’t ask).
Strangely, I was thinking of this card as I was helping String Bean decorate his Valentine’s card box for school. We were putting letter stickers on it, writing “May the Force be with you” and spicing it up with Lego Star Wars stickers.
“Mom, you rock at this. Did they have Valentine’s Day during your childhood?” String Bean asked. He likes the word childhood when it comes to any of The Captain’s or my stories about our youth, which String Bean seems to think was during the ice ages or BN (before Nintendo).
“We did have Valentine’s Day. We decorated boxes with construction paper and paper doilies.”
“What are paper doilies?” he innocently asked.
“It is just like a very intricate paper snowflake-looking thing,” I stated knowing the next question would be about the word intricate.
“Is it as intricate as my Star Wars box?” he asked, skeptically.
“Not exactly. Your box is much cooler.”
Happy Alentine’s Ay to all. May the Force, not VD, be with you.
This post is a knee slapper!
Thank you! 🙂
Yesterday morning the Doc sent me a text: Happy VD. I asked him if he brought something back from Honduras that I should know about. 🙂
Love it! Lol!
I LIKE your mother’s valentine card. It’s was a GREAT idea! Have you changed your mind now that you have a tyke of your own?
I think it is pretty funny looking back on it now! My mom has a “hoot” of a sense of humor. 🙂
Oh, how I’d love to get my hands on a card like that! Would spring it on my son in a couple years 🙂
Wish I could find it… If I do, I will post a picture of it! 🙂
I need to find that card!
Awesome!
I gave my hubby a dentist appointment this year; the card might be a better idea – and definitely funnier!
And probably cheaper, too! Lol!
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