Sow There!

I don’t think you need to have a greeting card company to tell you when to do something wildly romantic for your partner. Alas, most women, and many men, have come to expect something fantabulous on Feb. 14.

The officials here at Sow There! World Headquarters have assembled a few things that might substitute for fattening candy and expensive flowers.

• If you need to stick with traditional, buy a rose bush that will remind you of the day for years and years.

• Prepare a bubble bath, buy a zillion white candles at the dollar store and light a bunch along the edge of the tub. If in season, gather rose petals from your neighbors and sprinkle them in the water. Extra kudos if you actually clean out the tub first.

• Write a poem, a love song or even a silly song.

• Put off chores (see “You Stink Day) in Friday’s Sow There! for details.

• List the reasons you adore your S.O. and mail it to his/her work.

• Buy a plant and plant it together.

• Take a romantic drive to somewhere you used to make out when you were first dating, or the first time you kissed,

• I think another good idea is to focus on other people you love. This day doesn't always have to be about "romantic love." Why not let your parents know how much you love them by having them over for dinner.
You certainly can't take them to dinner any place nice because all those smoochy couples have reservations.
Thank your parents for putting up with you all those times you were a major brat, snuck out of the house as a teenager or lied and said the car was vandalized instead of fessing up that you hit a tree.

Please share your own yummy Valentines Day gestures by leaving a comment. Other readers might benefit from them.