I have never been a huge fan of this holiday. But this year, I saw it with a new perspective and I approached it from a new vantage point. It’s all about love.

Yes, of course it has always been about love - romantic love, right? No - I have totally been missing the point. Since the birth of my three greatest joys: my two sons and my book, I have experienced a new kind of love. A love to celebrate on Valentine’s Day.

This takes nothing away from the love I have for my husband, it actually expands it and increases it, and makes me realize how much love we actually do have in our lives.

Love is what it is all about. Family, Faith and Friendship - those are all built upon the foundation of love. So to celebrate those, as I have in abundance since the publication of What Though the Odds, is to celebrate love. And there is no better day to do this, than today.

I also watched my children take great care in making their Valentines for their friends and teachers this year. We spent a few hours sitting at our kitchen table, all a mess with stickers, hearts, scissors and pens. They wrote each name with excitement and, well…with love. Spending time as a family, we celebrated friendship.

I loved it.