Valentine’s Day takes on a whole new meaning when you are a single parent. It no longer means candle light dinners, roses, and romantic nights out on the town. Your focus is no longer on a significant other, instead it is solely on your children.
I’ve never been real big on Valentine’s Day, even when we were married we didn’t seem to do much. However, now that Logan is getting a little older he gets pretty excited about holidays, even the little ones like Valentine’s Day. He hears about them from his friends at daycare and insists on celebrating every single one. While this could have been a very isolating holiday for me, he made sure that it wasn’t. We spent the weekend making Valentine’s cards for all of his friends and teachers and had a great time celebrating just the two of us; way better than a candle light dinner if you ask me! To top it all off, we even got to cuddle up to a movie together. Had I still been married, I’m sure the night would have gone very differently, but it was kind of nice spending it just me and Logan this year. It was one more thing to bring us even closer. There are lots of opportunities for this when you are a single parent. Whenever you find activities that you can do together to nurture your relationship with your children, take advantage of it. It’s one of the joys of having all that one on one time together.
Being single isn’t always very much fun, it can be incredibly lonely at times, especially on holidays like these, but it gave me the opportunity to spend this special day with my sweet little boy and he is by far the greatest Valentine I could have ever asked for.