I’ve personally never been a fan of Valentine’s Day. I really don’t understand the point. It’s just one more day men have to remember not to get themselves in trouble over. And it’s so commercialized!
I know many of you adore it. Many of us who read romance novels are romantics at heart. I’m really kind of not one, my dh is the one who remembers birthdays and anniversaries and does sweet, romantic things..I always forget.
However, in the spirit of the holiday I’m going to offer two copies of 1001 Ways to be Romantic by Gregory J.P. Godek. I have a copy myself and it’s really filled with some great ideas. Simple things, from writing a note and leaving it on the bathroom mirror to big things, like planning a secret weekend getaway with your significant other.
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Leave a comment on this post telling me what the most romantic thing you or your significant other has done OR what the most romantic thing you’d like to do for someone else or have done for you. I’ll choose two winners tomorrow.
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The most romantic thing I’ve done is compose a “naughty” poem for his eyes only.
Cheryl
To surprise me, my husband will come home during his lunch break and leave a card and flowers on the counter for me to find when I get home from work. He does this at random times to show me he was thinking of me.
Write I LOVE YOU with soap on the bathroom mirror..
awww (then you have to clean it up..:P ) awww
Hmmm he does little things. He rubs my back when I am sore, he sends me flowers if I am having a horrid day at work!
As for the soap on mirrors, something you can do, you know how they have markers for kids for writing on windows?? They work great on the mirror 😉
This sounds like a great book, and I think I am going to have to pick it up (for both of us to use! lol)
The most romantic thing my husband did was how he proposed to me. We met the very first day of classes freshman year and started dating the end of December that year. 3 months later said I love you, 7 months later, knew that we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together. Since we were poor college students, we tried to go out at least once a month, on our anniversary. So two year later, on April 29th, he made dinner reservations at a nice restaurant for us. We got dressed up. Since it was cloudy out, Todd pulled over to get an umbrella from the trunk so that our nice clothes wouldn’t get rained on. And he took an awful long time about it. Finally, he came to my car door and opened it. He had put on a POTO mask and cap. It turned out that he had parked at a park (lol) and he led me to some trees and we danced as he sang two songs from the movie before giving speech and pulling out a ring box.
Btw, I had a feeling when I woke up that morning that he would propose that day (we had talked about getting married for awhile, I even told him that he could ask me without a ring but he wouldn’t hear of it) but had no idea that it would be so romantic!
I would love to surprise my husband by going away for the weekend, with no kids, to a secluded cabin. We never seem to get time for just the two of us.
There is a gift I gave Bob for Christmas the year my panic attacks fried me into agoraphobia. I couldn’t leave the house without tons of stress. Bob was a complete soul mate during this time and for some reason I wanted to get him the best gift ever to show him just how much it all meant to me.
I struggled for months and couldn’t figure out one gift to get him. Then it occurred to me that the greatest gift I could give him was a little book about him and all his great qualities.
It took me weeks (I didn’t want it to look crafty or silly and I was really trying) to make this itty bitty book with two hard covers made from picture matting.
In the end, it looks like nothing. There is not title on it or anything to let a person know what it on the inside. I’m sure Bob was befuddled and I was nervous.
He loved it and I was happy with his reaction.
It was a few years later that a friend told me that while a bunch of staff were having lunch someone asked what was the best gift they ever got. Bob said it was a little book I had made him for Christmas.
It sits in a cabinet in the living room and as far as I know no one except Bob and I know what it is.
That was 10 years ago – so I could use some new ideas for being romantic 😉
CindyS
I think the most romantic thing I’ve done for my s.o. is…
… introduce him to romance.
After that, we have read a number of books together–taking turns to read a chapter out loud to each other.
Yeah, he’s a keeper 😀
I think I’m too late for the contest – wasn’t geeking yesterday, duh! Anyway, the most romantic thing I can think of my husband did was rent a tandem bike for our anniversary. — willaful