Valentine's Day is around the corner once again and flowers are always a fail safe gift. My husband, Felix, was not very creative with his gift giving. His idea of a gift was giving something he liked. He was sure that if he liked something, others would like them too. Felix loved red roses and so he gave them to the people he loved. Just before Valentine's Day, he would order a box of two dozen red roses one each for me, our two daughters Emilie and Melissa, his mom and my sister-in-law, Cathy. Sometimes, he added a box of chocolates or a trinket or a card, but we knew we would always got red roses. He did it year after year except when he got too sick to do it.
Felix passed away a few months ago . We will not get red roses for Valentine's Day this year. Instead, on Valentine's Day, we will bring him red roses and we will remember just as he always did.
