Valentine's day

Even though I am not a big fan of Valentine’s Day I do try to make it a little special. This was my first real busy valentine’s though. Julia had to write 25 cards to her friends from kindergarten and Josh had 8 cards to write as well.  The kids also made some cards for grandma, grandpa and mommy and daddy.

Julia has mastered the pencil now and really enjoys writing. Josh just barely got how to write his entire name and he did a pretty good job on his friend’s cards. But those cute little friend’s cards took us an entire afternoon to prep, I was exhausted.

Joshua actually got to have a party from preschool and got a bag loaded with candy. Julia just had a regular day at school and got 0 candy but a lot of pencils and crayons.

Julia actually let me try a valentine’s hair –do on her that day; she had a big smile on her face so I guess she liked it. Let’s just say that I usually succeed 1 out of the 10 times that I try to do her hair cute, I was just glad that it was for this occasion.

For lunch that day I took the kids to McDonalds. I usually let them play for 15 or 20 minutes, but this day we played for an entire hour. The kids loved it and they like getting their toys at the end of their meal.

That night the kids and I made Spencer’s favorite food: spaghetti and meatballs with a side salad and French bread and of course daddy’s favorite drink root beer.

I was so tired at the end of the day I felt sleep at 7:00 on josh’s bed after I read him a story. Spencer came and got me out of his room by 11 o’clock. We had and evening planned which included snacks and seasons 1, 2 and 3 of Psych.

The main thing about that day was to make everyone feel special and loved and I think that with all the hugs and kisses that we received from we did just that.