Valentines day and other Holidays

Happy Valentines day all!
So what do I think of this special day were the ones that say they love you everyday feel the need to express more love on this day than other days. Well I think that sentence says it all. I would rather be shown love everyday of my life and not more than usual on February 14th. Doug does show me that love everyday so I feel lucky and blessed, but the thing that gets me is when people say me and so and so are going out this weekend to celebrate Valentines day. Well no Valentines day is Feb 14th not Feb 12, or 20th so why if you are going to celebrate this extra special love day are you going to do it on any other day but the 14th? That brings me to all other Holidays. They are meant to be celebrated on that day, such as Thanksgiving why do we celebrate it the entire month of November? and Easter what is up with that holiday that people feel the need to make plans all month long? As for Christmas that is a little different it is a birthday celebration and unless our birthdays fall on a weekend we celebrate sometime within that month so Christmas I get. St. Patricks day is another holiday that I don't understand it is on a Thursday this year it is one day in mid week it is not the Friday or Saturday afterwords. So if you are going to partake in that Holiday do it on Thursday.
The Valentines day story of why we celebrate the day that I like best is "The St. Valentine the day is named for was, most likely, a priest in the 3rd century who performed secret marriages when the Roman Emperor Claudius II thought single soldiers were more likely to enlist in the army. That St. Valentine was imprisoned and executed on February 4, 270. It is believed he was responsible for giving the jailer's blind daughter back her eyesight, and before his execution, he sent herss a note saying, "From your Valentine." So it is a one day event that has been turned upside down and is celebrated for days before and after. Why do we celebrate St. Patricks day? The primary reason for the celebration is to commemorate the feast day of Saint Patrick, a Christian missionary who later on became the patron saint of Ireland. It is held every 17th day of March, which is believed to coincide with the time of his death. English-speaking countries, individuals of Irish ancestry and the Irish people are just few of the many groups that devotedly follow this special annual celebration. So if you are not Irish than there is no reason to celebrate this holiday, and there is really no reason that you should celebrate it for days before or after . I am not sure why this has sprung to my mind today but it has. Maybe it is because a lot of people have asked me what Doug and I are doing today to celebrate, well the answer is nothing more or less that we do any other day of the week, day, month or time of the year. I gave him a heart shaped box this morning with some candy and toys in it but that is only because I had to buy everything in 4 packs for the kids, and I only have three kids. I am sure Doug did not even think twice about today being Valentines day and I don't expect that he got me anything other than a kiss hello this morning and I will see you tonight. When I get home there will not be a special something waiting for me unless you consider Doug and my children something special which I do but it will be nothing extra.