I've been reading about amazingly fantastic Valentine's Day celebrations and crafts all week, so I had to put ours out there too:
*When Mike's asked me the week before, "We're really not doing anything for Valentine's day?" I said, "Nope, we're really not. I'm trying to plan/make it to 3 class parties and I have to teach 2 Zumba classes...that's pretty much all I can handle. Plus, I don't want to try and find a babysitter or rush home and get showered and dressed." He was a bit in shock, but he knew I was serious.
*The boys each got new basketball shorts and a box of Jelly Bellies with a handritten Valentine on a piece of pink construction paper from me when they woke up...I didn't even cut it in the shape of a heart
*Jace made everyone in the family really cute Valentine cards...that I forgot to get pictures of before we threw them away
*My kids had store bought valentines (no photos, no homemade suckers, no party bags...I know, failure)...even better, when we were assembling them the night before, I realized that we bought nerds and all the cards said things like, "Here's lookin at you nerd." Hopefully the parents understood.
*I helped plan and administer 2 big school Valentine celebrations and made it to the very end of one (one of the reasons for our lack of family celebrations)
*I taught 2 Zumba classes and felt particularly exhausted after the last one...did you know Valentine's Day is not a REAL holiday where people take the day off from exercise?
*We had no dinner plans...Mike made heart pancakes and we drank red smoothies together...not a bad improv. The kids were pleased.
*We had family night and hung out together and it turned out to be a really nice, low-key night. Exactly what I was looking for.
*We put the kids to bed and Mike got out his laptop to study for a huge midterm, I got my book out and pretended to read until I fell dead asleep at 9:30. Romantic huh?
Well, there is always next year, right?
5 comments:
sounds pretty good to me!!! the kids got gifts and red smoothies with heart pancakes. I'm impressed you squeezed all you did into one day. :)
Your valentines was pretty lame and guess what ours was even lamer... We bought valentines on saturday night after the kids went to bed and I realized that valentines was monday and sunday was the only day between saturday and monday. I was going to make ezra pancakes for breakfast, but didn't even wake up to see him out the door. Made heart cookies for ezra's class and in the middle of making them my hand mixer broke and got to his class ten minutes after the said start time. Spencer had class until six thirty. He came home and I did bust out the heart pancakes for dinner. He did bring me flowers and ice cream. We all at ice cream and I think a happy valentine's day was muttered as we deliriously crawled in bed.
I promise our Vday was MUCH more lame...all 5 of us really sick doesn't put me in the mood for celebrating. Brady was the only one who didn't care, of course. We did manage pink pancakes so I don't feel too bad about it. Miss you guys lots!
Don't worry about it. We all have our things, to pull off ours I avoided all three class parties and canceled much else for the week. I NEVER go out on a date for Valentines Night. I get to go out with him other nights. I love that you still did stuff. Don't worry about it. Supermom can't do EVERYTHING!
This sounds like a great v-day. There are not 3 little boys who are more loved. And they know their mom and dad love each other. That's all that matters!
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