Valentines day was a holiday that I never got to see Tina share with a boyfriend or husband. I took it upon myself to take the place of the things she was missing, like a sweetheart on valentines day. Every woman gets chocolates and flowers, I presumed. Brent had never missed a holiday, he makes sure I feel like the most special girl in the world. I couldn't help but notice that Tina was being left out. I made sure I was always her valentine, she informed me that she had never felt like a true valentine. This fueled my fire in making her feel she was a valentine, and that she got to have a valentine.
She would always end up eating most of my chocolates and Brent had known this would come to be, he bought me double chocolates so that I could share them with my tied for first valentine. She never wanted to be my second valentine and neither did Brent, we just ended up in an agreement that Tina and Brent always tied first. I really had nothing to do with this fight to be my number one valentine but I loved the attention. It was great fun, it is hard to find a best friend and a husband that agree instead of destroy. Brent respected the love that Tina and I shared and Tina respected Brent and I for the love we shared. Trust me there was never a dull moment when they would get into competition for my affection. It was easy for me, I knew how to be a double valentine although I had never done it before. Raspberry chocolates were Tina's favorite, this threw me for a loop because she hated artificial strawberry and watermelon flavors. The raspberry was so artificial yet it was her favorite. My favorite is the orange flavor. Raspberry was a stand out word for Tina, she said she had never heard anyone pronounce it the way I did. She had always heard "razzberry" typical of the average American but I pronounced it with its slight "p" sound instead of the "zz" sound. I never heard her pronounce it "razzberry" ever again. She respected the word just as I did and spoke "ras-p-berry" from then on. We knew that (raz- berē) was the proper way to say it but we often challenged things we disagreed with.
The pictures in this post are of Valentines day 2010, I remember Brent had got me those two huge boxes of chocolates. I put one away and took the other to the table with me. Tina dived right in and we ended up eating the entire box. Several hours later Tina looked at me and said "I wish there were more chocolates". I decided to surprise her with the second box. We nearly ate all of them as well. We were wired for the entire night, however we both had a major sugar crash and ended up sleeping on this chair bed together for a good nap. Don't ask how we both fit but we did and napped together here many times
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