For the record, I have never been one to buy into the hokey sentimentality of Valentine’s day…Until this year. Maybe it is the haze of newlyweddedness that is still making my normally Larry David-esque perspective a little more rosy that usual. Who knows. This year I turned into a love-crazed Martha Stewart. I made my husband a present I saw on Pinterest, I made a homemade felt heart garland; I also went to town making sweets for my sweetie that neither of us really needs to eat. I think that what happened in all honesty is that you work on planning a wedding and get stressed from all of that business, and then you get married, go on a honeymoon, and you are back to your lovey-dovey unstressed normal self again. Then the reality of marriage sets in. You go back to your day-to-day routines and you pay bills and talk about planning for the future, serious stuff. Amidst all of that you sometimes lose that lovey-dovey-ness that the two of you had on your wedding day or even back in the old days when you were dating and your then boyfriend carrying a cinderblock across your small college town …

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