Valentine's Day.  It's marketed as a day for lovers-- for engagements and heart-shaped tubs and bouquets of roses.  But for me, it's a day to celebrate a different kind of love -- the love I have for my two children. 

I got to spend Valentine's Day weekend with them.  Mer and I went to the movies last night while Chris was at home watching a Rangers hockey game.  Today I got to watch Chris play a fantastic school squash match --he doesn't even mind hearing my yell "Go Criff!"   

As far as Valentine's Day goes, I didn't get any flowers or chocolates or diamonds or a romantic weekend.  What I got was better -- I got to be with my two spectacular children who I love with all my heart.  They know that being a family, for better or for worse, is what real love is all about.