From The Past: February 14, 2007

I believe this is my first Valentine’s Day card:

It looks as though a dog got hold of it. Who knows, maybe I chewed on it. I have no idea what year I received it. I only know that mom always kept it in my baby book and that is where it is to this day, so I must have been very young. You can also see that I wrote my name on it – back when I was still spelling it the way my parents intended me to. I like the spelling of my name now and I have never regretted changing it.

From my scrapbooks, here are my cards from school in 1983:

These are from 1984:

These are also from 1984:

Really, when you look at them, they haven’t changed that much over the years.