All in the Family: A Heart Day at Home

Even a quarantine queen like me breaks out for a Valentine's party.  Every year, my immediate family celebrates with festive food, decorations, and gifts for the kids.  This is the first year since the pandemic that we're doing it again, and I must say I'm excited.  

If you're a fan of The Goldbergs, then you may be thinking, hey, wait a minute, isn't that a little like the Schwartzes?  If you don't know what I'm talking about, then here's the skinny.  On this season's V-day episode, siblings Erica and Barry were horrified to find out that their significant others, Geoff and Joanne (who are also, in this sitcomiest of sitcoms, siblings) celebrate Valentine's Day with each other and their parents.  The notoriously non-mushy Goldberg kids couldn't believe that the Schwartzes liked each other enough to willingly spend a nonfamily holiday together.  I could relate -- with Geoff and Joanne, that is.  (Except for the part where they peck each other on the lips.  Sorry not sorry, Schwartzes, but that's just icky.)  Because it's nice to get together with your nearest and dearest and laugh, even if -- especially if -- the rest of the world is laughing at you.

Not that Erica and Barry stayed snarky for long.  In the space of thirty minutes (or more like twenty, with commercials), they reversed their initial affection rejection and learned to appreciate each other.  Was it weird that this epiphany dawned during a romantic horse-drawn carriage ride?  For sure.  Then again, anyone willing to endure the smell of an equine's backside is in it for the long haul.  Brother/sister, boyfriend/girlfriend, oldster/paid companion, whatevs.  

So, this Valentine's Day, I hope you get to hang with someone you love -- or, even better yet, someone you like.                         

And that you laugh so hard it hurts and burns the calories from all of that chocolate.