I can't tell you how many times we read this book during the season. It's a favorite!
We spent a FHE making hearts for everyone. I love how the kids' turned out. Dalanie's turned out to be a jumble of names and words. Hudson's were meticulously penned and so sincere.
Our 'mailboxes' were filled to overflowing with snips of paper, re-gifted classroomValentine's, scraps of fabrics and original works of art and literature. They sure kept the girls busy.
We kicked off our Valentine's week with a cookie decorating party at the Jolley's. It is always a lot of fun with tons of people and tons of sprinkles and frosting. They will bake up a ton of cookies and invite people over to frost them, it's such a fun thing.
As you can see, the girls like all the sprinkles. Ruby had quite a knife collection, since she can't resist licking anything with frosting on it.
We made up some fortune cookies to send to friends and family. The guy at the post office said he had never before seen a take out box sent in the mail.
Some yucky bug found it's way into our house the beginning of the week.
first valentine's day
Both Hudson and Dalanie came into our rooms on Valentine's convincing us that they were healed and ready to head to school for their class parties. And since no fevers were detected, we sent them on their merry way.
Dalanie and I made this pig 'box' for her and Hudson got special permission to take his mailbox. That makes it the 3rd year in a row that he's used it- talk about a good investment of time and energy.
And even though we decorated cookies at the party, I couldn't resist making up some of our own.
By the end of the day, the kids were wiped out. Hudson fell asleep before we even had dinner, and it was all the girls could do to get through dinner before crashing. So much for a fun and fancy family date night. Ah-well. Lower expectations made the day quite pleasant.
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