February 10, 2006

Valentine's Day Memories

Theresa over at This Mom Blogs posts a Valentine's Day memory as part of her Flashback Friday, and asks "Which Valentine’s Day is most memorable to you?"

Um, well, only one really sticks out in my mind. It was February 14, 2000, and Son was almost five months old. We, he and I, celebrated the day by trying sweet potatoes for the first time. The sweet taters didn't exactly agree with him; he was an urper-upper anyway (what baby isn't) but every time he urped he also brought up yammy goodness. All over me.

I remember I was wearing a grey sweatshirt that day, and my requisite blue sweatpants. I was, in short, a bedheaded mess to begin with, but by the time my husband got home at 5:00 PM I was sporting a lovely sweet potato barf ring around my collar.

Well, you know, he'd brought home those ridiculous novelty things, chocolate roses, stuff like that, and a really nice card. (We weren't exactly rolling in dough back then.) But he got home, took Son in his arms, and told me to just relax. I did, and I ate all that chocolate he brought home.

Not exactly on par with Theresa's memory, but still...