Simple Plans

What are we going to do for Valentine’s Day?

“Let’s build a fire,” I said. “Cuz we said we’d use the fireplace when we moved in, but haven’t touched it yet.”

“Yeah, and I’ll grill a steak,” Ron said.

“Oooh, and I’ll get cupcakes from Buzz*,” I said.

“And we can open the organic wine we were given for Christmas,” Ron said.

"And we can read each other poetry," I said. "Maybe passages from Solomon’s Song of Songs.

Beloved: Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine . . . . How handsome you are my lover!

Lover: Behold, thou art fair, my love. Thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep.

"Your teeth are like sheep? Your hair like goats? If I said that to you, you'd clock me!" Ron said.

Well, maybe. But if we're reading poetry, it'll make me blush.

So come the 14th, it looks like we’re keeping things simple (and rather biblical) around here.

What’re your plans?

*Buzz is our sweet little neighborhood bakery.