Jill Browne, from home and away

Monday, February 14, 2011

Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

When we were little kids in school, Valentine’s Day was such a big deal. First it was just the novelty and surprise of giving and getting these things, then it was a sense of relief when you actually got one (everyone in the class did, but there was always that element of suspense).
Then it was about boys and girls and who liked who, but only the girls were really promoters of that whole scene.
Big gap then suddenly the boyfriends are young men with jobs and the ability to pay for roses, dinner, a mortgage and somewhere in there, a wedding license.
Little babies come and so do pink fluffy toys, then those cute little Valentine’s cards that so amazed us with their novelty.