Happy Valentines Day!

Today is the day that love is celebrated, we go on dates, dress our babies up and spend way too much on roses and chocolate. I love this holiday, and the only people who truly hate it are the single people, or the people who are away from their loved ones, I however am lucky enough to be spending today with the people who I Love the most, My  Hubby, my kids and my Mom. I Hope everyone has a lovely valentines day.


 Here are a few fun facts about V-Day!

• Valentine’s Day there is a 3.6 percent increase in spontaneous births
• More than 36 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate are sold for Valentine's Day each year.
• On average, men shell out $130 each on candy, cards, jewelry, flowers and dates. That’s more than double what women commit to spending.
• About 8 billion candy hearts will be produced this year; that’s enough candy to stretch from Rome, Italy to Valentine, Arizona 20 times and back again.
• Worldwide, over 50 million roses are given for Valentine's Day each year.
• Women purchase 85% of all valentines.
• In order of popularity, Valentine's Day cards are given to teachers, children, mothers, wives, sweethearts and pets.
• 73% of people who buy flowers for Valentine's Day are men, while only 27 percent are women.
• In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. To wear your heart on your sleeve now means that it is easy for other people to know how you are feeling.
• The Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day.
• Alexander Graham Bell applied for his patent on the telephone, an "Improvement in Telegraphy", on Valentine's Day, 1876.s 
• In Medieval times, girls ate unusual foods on St Valentine's Day to make them dream of their future husband.
• According to the condom company Durex, condom sales are highest around Valentine's Day, which are 20 percent to 30 percent higher than usual.
• More at-home pregnancy tests are sold in March than in any other month.
• Penicillin, a popular treatment for venereal diseases such as syphilis, was introduced to the world on February 14, 1929.