Six Tips to Get You Through Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is exactly two weeks away and if you haven’t forgotten about Valentine’s Day with your love, then you are ahead of the game. But the pressure is on to outdo yourself from past years’ celebrations, thanks, in part to modern living.
In this current era of the internet, online dating is perhaps where
you started your romance, and texting is how you kept the fires burning. Instant resources at your fingertips to help you find that romantic weekend
getaway, are easier than ever to find.
Printing your romantic photos on coffee mugs and t-shirts, or arranging
a couples’ massage at your home or favorite spa, can be done easily
and quickly.
Several decades ago, chocolates and flowers were the easy and typical
gifts expressing love on this special day. Perhaps a movie and a walk in the park would wind up the evening, or
cuddling on the old couch watching a roaring fireplace after enjoying tea and
heart-shaped cookies. Expressions of love may have changed, but expectations of
spending time together stay the same.
Here are six ideas to get you through Valentine’s Day
- Busy work schedules and family activities can sometimes put a wrench in your plans. If there are scheduling issues, discuss ahead to postpone the celebrations, and make it doubly fun and exciting like a weekend getaway with skiing or spa options.
- Hire a private chef to your home to prepare the foods you both enjoy most, including dessert and wine. We invite you to visit Mamma Rita Cucina Italiana.
- Arrange an in-home couples’ massage session where you both can enjoy a relaxing and rejuvenating experience that will have long-term benefits. If your honey loves massages but you don't, buy them a massage therapy gift card.
- Get creative using arts and crafts. Commit to each other that you will each spend at least a total of 5 hours, not necessarily in one sitting, to design and create from nothing, something meaningful, useful and of course fun to use or display!
- Plan an evening of culinary delights where you both will display your talents in the kitchen. You can each decide ahead of time what course you are both responsible for, or work on the entire meal together. Chopping, slicing, crushing and dicing are but a few of the activities you can enjoy doing side by side. Serve a colourful Grilled Bell Pepper Salad at your table that goes well with your grilled meats or vegetarian menu. Otherwise, pull out the old fondue set, melt some swiss cheese, add a basket of cubed baguettes, wine of course, and enjoy each other’s presence by candlelight!
- Explore together to grow as a team. Having common goals and achieving them together brings more intimacy to your couple. Read, Ten Life Lessons from Maintaining a Wood Fire, about a couple who chose to spend their Christmas holidays deep in the woods of the Laurentians, Quebec, in below average freezing temperatures with no running water and one wood burning stove.
There is never any doubt that spending time together as a couple, as well as a family, creates tighter and long-lasting bonds. Living and loving in these exciting modern times however could borrow from the past to help create that physical reconnection with our loved ones, as it is vital to the survival of relationships.
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