Valentines and Anniversaries

Valentine's day is just a usual ordinary day. Since we got married we also refrain from going out since traffic is so bad and you can hardly get to dine in a good restaurant unless you made prior reservations. We would rather spend it at home where I would cook home-cooked meal and just enjoy the rest of the night. Anniversaries on the other hand is more important for us. It is not about the special gift as well on that special day but rather we would like to just spend time with each other. Now that we have kids, we always try to include them in our plans. In fact, when we were choosing our wedding date, we precisely wanted it to happen in a summer time here in the Phils so that in the future, we can consider out of town trips with the kids since they don't have school in celebarating our anniversaries. How time flies! We're looking forward to our 5th this year!

Intersting. We have no problems remembering Valentines Day or our Anniversary. Valentine's Day is really hard to forget - esp with us because it's also our neices birthday. And our Anniversary is an extremely important day to us. One that we feel should be celebrated in some way or another. So we don't forget that either. We don't always exchange traditional gifts but cards and flowers and usually dinner is always going on. Last 2 years instead of buying one another gifts for our anniversary we saved our money and took trips later in the year as our gift to one another. We still had dinner and such as I mentioned earlier though. I think it's important to celebrate each other. These holidays/occasions just make it a great time to do so :)

for valentines, we do celebrate it but not on the day itself like we used to when we were just bf-gf. we just give simple gifts to each other on the 14th, then have a simple 'date' on the weekend after. but for anniversaries, we celebrate it quite big. it's the time we got married and started a life together so this is really special for both of us. we do the planning before hand, and we usually have an out-of-town celebration. our wedding date is a holiday so we don't have problems on having an overnight or a 3-day vacation, with our lil' boy in tow.

My husband and I celebrated our first anniversary just because we had a gift certificate from the restaurant where we had our wedding reception and it was going to expire that day. LOL. No, we were never big on Valentine's even before we were married. We'd rather save the money. :)

My hubby and I are not so big on celebrations. Sure, we acknowledge the dates but only make a fuss about if it's a really special one (like our first wedding anniversary).

for valentine's, i'm not used to celebrating it. i think its more for business people who are into flowers and chocolates and other 'lovey-dovey' stuffs. valentine's is too commercialized to be celebrated by people who shows their love 365 days a year... for me, valentine's can happen everyday. but hubby thinks that at least he can give something so he buys a special chocolate for that day alone (as he usually buys chocolate every now and then). but anniversaries is different. this is something we always look forward to. we'd celebrate it somewhere we don't usually go. we'd plan for it (or i'd say he'd plan for it more) and save for it.