Happy Valentine's Day~ I appreciate the fact that it calls attention to the need to express your LOVE for others, but don't care for the commercialized pressure. I again asked that Brad skip the flowers buying today and just pick a random day during the year to surprise me. So with that I hinted for him to doing something a little more thoughtful... curious what he'll do with that? So far my Valentine has started the day by not only warming up the car, but brushing the newly fallen 4 inches of snow off it, and shoveling a path to the car for me so I wouldn't get snow in my shoes. Then shortly after getting to work I received a surprise phone call from my little Valentines (before they went to school) wishing me a "Happy Valentine's Day, Mommy" Ahhhh...
So what do I do for my Valentine? For the last 3 years now, I've bought him a whole Pecan Pie (his fav) and let him eat it all himself, without giving him crap about all the calories he's consuming. (He still hasn't caught on to the pie "tradition") Before kids we used to go and wait for hours to dine out at a favorite restaurant, and enjoy adult conversation over a bottle of wine. These days I don't want to take the chance of ruining the evening for anyone else when my kids start to act like animals in the restaurant, so we skip the restaurants on Valentine's day. I'd just hate to discourage any newlyweds from their decision to have children. So instead we'll pick up a Heart Shaped pizza and scarf it down before we dash out the door for Dylan and Riley's skating lessons (last one for the yr) then maybe stop for some ice cream on the way home.
The boys were super excited for their party today and to hand out their Valentines with suckers to their friends at school. (Good thing we've got skating tonight to wear off that sugar high) Last year those 2 got a pile of candy - So much that Mom and Dad had to help out a bit. Wonder what kind of treats we can look forward to this year ;-) I hope Tangy Taffy! (Not Laffy Taffy, TANGY TAFFY) ... Ahhh, I've been craving Tangy Taffy for the past month, and I can only find it at a gas station across town. ~Fortunately we'll be driving by that gas station on our way to skating tonight :-) I wonder if they make a Tangy Taffy ice cream?
Hope your Valentine's is a sweet one :-)
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Glad to hear that you had a great Valentinte's Day. I'm glad to know that we aren't the only ones that skip going out for supper with the kids. For the past 5 years we've been dining in and Jordan get's to pick her meal that she wants which is usually fish but this year to our surprise she choose to have crab legs and steak with us. Tristan even had a little but just a little taste for him other wise he ate everything else. I too would hate to scare off the newlyweds. I'm jealous though that you guys got snow again. We've only had a little tease of snow and that was it. Although we are going to southern Germany in the middle of March and we will hopefully be able to play in some snow with the kids. We are not coordinated enough to go skiing so we will hopefully settle with some sledding instead. Hope the rest of your day goes well!
So glad to hear you had a nice
V-Day. We also had a really nice day. Raya did a heart shaped box craft at daycare and brought it home just for me, I was so cheesed I was crying! The pregnancy horemones must have had something to do with it. The three of us stayed home for dinner, Ryan made eggplant parm & pasta. Delicious. We also had a chocolate fondue for dessert. Raya did not want any of the chocolate, only the strawberries and cantalope. I kept thinking, are you really my daughter, no chocolate! Dinner consisted of a few timeouts so we too do not dine out on V-Day! I hope your weekend goes better nap wise than last weekend.
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