The hubby did good for Valentines Day

February 15th, 2008

Oh I know, I know, we shouldn’t have to rely on a big “commercial racket” , to quote Charlie Brown, to tell our significant others we love them but when you get a nice bouquet of flowers from the Big Island, whose gonna complain? We’ve always had great results from Linda’s Place of Hawaii in Kurtistown. We’ve used other places and the quality of flowers and packing just weren’t the same. So I was pleasantly surprised to receive this lovely bouquet from my honey. I am always amazed how much Hawaiian flowers cheer up a room. The great thing is you don’t have to wait for Valentines Day or someone else to cheer up your place. Whether you get them from a florist, a grocery store or a roadside farmers market, its a small investment in the way they make you feel and longer lasting than roses.

It always cracked me up to get them at work because people are always so fascinated with them. I’d get all kinds of questions “are they real?” or you’d have people coming up to smell them and say how great the anthuriums smelled. You couldn’t help but giggle because if you’ve ever gotten them you knew darn well they didn’t smell. But I’d take each stem and foliage out and arrange them in a vase I kept in my desk drawer. By the time I was done I had a beautifully arranged and completely unique bouquet that outshined anything in the office. I was the envy of the office and I have to say there was always one girl who always got flowers from her husband any time of year but when I got my beautiful Hawaiian flowers, she always commented on how much she loved them. You can’t help but feel good making the girl who gets 3-5 bouquets a year a little envious with one bouquet.

So how about you? Whether single, dating or married did you do anything to celebrate with your valentine? (Regardless of your valentine…your honey, your kid(s), your pet or yourself)