A day for all

February 14th has long been marked as Valentine's Day and it has always been projected a day for lovers to buy each other gifts and romantic dinners. If asked how does Valentine's Day come about, would you know?

Apparently, I don't even though we have been celebrating it for years. Last Wednesday, we received a very interesting memo from Justin's school PSG about Valentine's Day. Apparently, this day is to honour Saint Valentine, a Roman who was martyred for refusing to give up Christianity and on this day of his death, he left a farewell note for the jailer's daughter who had become his friend and signed it "From your Valentine". So, over the years, this day has become the date for exchanging love messages and simple gifts such as flowers.

PSG has urged every parent to show our love for our kids (just like the way we wanted to please our spouses/lovers) by showering our kids with sweet-noted cards and gifts so that our kids will feel loved and appreciated on this day too. Besides, V-day is not only for lovers, spouses but also for friends and families.

And guess what we did? We signed our little sweet note to our beloved little boy and bought him a packet of sweets (he loves sweets anyway!), packed them into a big envelope, put on a stamp, attention to him and left it in the letterbox. As usual, he will be the one opening the letterbox everyday and when he saw the parcel, he was so excited and surprised. While waiting for the lift, he kept asking me who could hv sent him this parcel? What could it be? (Could it be his lost ruler and pencil?*LOL*) and why someone sent him this parcel and so on and so forth..

When we reached home, he quickly opened up the parcel and it really warmed my heart to see his delighted face when he saw the sweets + the card and his happiness to be loved and appreciated on this day. He gave me a big hug ( and 1 to his daddy too) and personally, I think we did a right thing to send him to this school where besides developing the kids academically, they focus alot on values and bonds of love and commitment between the kids and parents. Else, I wouldn't have prepared this surprise for him (can tell I not very romantic) and miss out this memorable experience.

And we hope that Justin will grow up knowing the true meaning of V-day and everyday is a V-day as long as we have one another and friends to standby us.

So, Happy Valentine's To all our friends out there! May u find trued love and friendship and be blessed everyday!