Valentine's Day is just around the corner and I have been remembering just how much I loved this holiday as a child. We always had a party at school and everyone would make their own Valentine box for classmates to put cards in. I always took special care to make mine as pretty as possible, using construction paper and those white lace paper doilies. How romantic! The more red hearts on the box the better. I remember some of the boys would not sign their cards because they were too embarrassed. Their mother's must have insisted that they give a card to each girl in the class. In the 1950's the Valentine cards were very different than the cards my granddaughters give today. They were bigger and had such cute messages on them. I have some of my mother's cards from the 1930's and 40's and they were very romantic and almost Victorian. I suppose cards like that would not be cost effective today.
When I was a teenager, my boyfriend would always give me a big box of candy and some kind of stuffed animal. One year he gave me a huge yellow and orange camel that I named Clyde (after a song that was popular at the time). I'm guessing that a box of candy would rank in the Top Valentine's Gifts for 2010 but I doubt that a large stuffed camel named Clyde would!
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