Valentine's Cards

With Valentine’s Day just a few weeks away, it is time to start making them, or at least to start thinking about them. If you’ve got kids in school, you know how much fun and dread go into filling out cards for the class, but what about us adults? How many of us take the time to fill out cards for loved ones?

A few years ago at church during our choir’s Christmas music service, one of the choir members told a story of why she didn’t mail out Christmas cards. With all the hustle and bustle of the holidays, that was the easiest thing to scratch off the to-do list. So instead, during the much slower month of February, she would start sending out her thank-you cards in the form of Valentines. This accomplished two things: Actually sending out thank-you cards, and not fretting over what to write inside the Valentine Card.

I’ve adopted her strategy, because I am horrible at sending out thank-you cards or notes. And, it gives me another excuse to go see our friend Sarah so we can make the cards together, even if we do spend most of the time goofing off!

So I hope I’ve inspired you to send out your own Valentine’s Day Thank-You Cards. And before any of you start off with Miss Etiquette’s rule of 2 weeks from the time the gift is received, another rule is better late than never. And yes, e-cards are perfectly appropriate too!