You know You're pregnant when you'd rather have food over flowers:

Dustin: What do you want to do for Valentines Day?

Me: I dunno, lets just hang out

Dustin: Well, we have to do Something. What do you want? I'd like to get you something.

Me: I don't want anything specific. PLEASE don't get me flowers! 

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Honestly, I just want creme brulee.

 Make me creme brulee!!!

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AND that one Mediterranean beef curry dish with the cilantro and veggies!

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AND maybe chocolate mousse with homemade whipped cream and raspberries!!!!

(at this point, I've got drool dribbling down my chin.)

{You know you're pregnant when you'd rather have food over flowers.}

Dustin: Remember the first year we were married and we dropped $300 on Valentines Day dinner?

We both start chuckling realizing just how ridiculous dropping that much money on one dinner was.

Not only that, but buying a pretty red dress & getting my nails done, all in the name of Valentines day. It wasn't ridiculous at all. It was fun, but NOW, it would be considered totally ridiculous. If we had $300 extra dollars just laying around, we defiantly wouldn't use it for a fancy dinner. 

Back then, I worked at a bank and also worked as a hotel nanny on the weekends. I was being tipped way too much money from moms and dad's who left a stranger with their kids-all in the name of forgotten nights on the glitzy Vegas strip. It was an easy job and I didn't have to show my ass off to do it. Half the time they were too drunk to know who I was when they returned from their booze fest. But that was my job, and I actually really enjoyed it. Dustin went to school full time and worked full time at a golf course & made great money. We had too much money back then and were too young and irresponsible to know what to do with it, so we spent it on romantic dinners! Glorious, romantic dinners! 

We enjoyed expensive bottles of delicious wines, sipped lobster bisque & ordered multiple desserts at the end of our meal. On our way to the car, we made out in the elevator making everyone else around us very uncomfortable, all in the name of Valentines Day & romance. It was hot. BUT those weren't the MOST romantic days of our marriage-the beginning. I don't look back at the beginning longing for the "good" days. I look back and am glad that our love is richer, that we're more in love & that we've fought for our marriage. That's what romance is now. 

So yesterday Dustin went to Whole Foods and purchased all of the ingredients needed for my 

Valentines Day food feast of feasts. I can't tell you how excited I am. All I really wanted was some time to myself to relax this weekend, and have my man cook for me. {I feel so fat for saying that! Whatever, I'm pregnant, I don't care.} Isn't it funny how when  you become a mom, an hour to yourself to have a good soak and read a gossip mag is so much more valuable than any kind of trinket or gift? A hot bath! That's all we want! AND a hot meal....that we didn't make!

  I've been leaving him poetry & photos of us, secretly stashed in his underwear drawer, lunch box and in his truck all week. There's nothing sexier or sweeter than a hand written love letter or a small reminder of the love we share. It's the simple things.

That's how we're celebrating this holiday of love.
What are you hoping to receive this year?