I don’t think there’s anything wrong in the universe with a day devoted to showing people you love them! Do I believe you should do that every day? Yup. But I’ve got no problems with having one day where everything’s pink and heart-shaped. :)
It makes me sad when people are so down on Valentine’s day because it’s become so commercialized. I mean, c’mon! All the holidays are commercialized! I celebrate Christmas, but I skip the Santa/Rudolph/gotta-get-a-present-for-everyone-ness of it all. And I think I can enjoy Valentine’s day without feeling like I’m buying into some horrible American “fake” holiday. The origins of Valentine’s day are nice… and not created by Hallmark. :)
Aaaaaaannnnnnddddd… rant over.
I dressed everyone with a little red on Thursday and actually managed to get them outside for a picture before dropping Joanna off at school. {It was a holiday miracle!}
Previously in the week we decided to make heart-shaped crayons for the girls to give their friends at school. {I guess it does bother me a bit that the kids are pretty much required to bring in valentines for their classmates; it doesn’t really feel like an option.}
In a perfect world, I might have helped the girls make hand-made cards for all of their classmates. As it was, they had enough trouble just signing their names!
But Joanna did a good job writing her name 19 times…
Natalie just had 12 to do. And I wrote “love” for her.
Voila! I found the printable online and stuck the heart on with masking tape. The girls said their friends liked them – yay! And one less piece of candy in the bag!
My momma took me to lunch on Valentine’s day – yuuuuuum!
For dinner I wanted to be sort of “festive” with the meal, so I opted for breakfast, since I thought I could incorporate some heart shapes in there.
I used my heart cookie-cutter to cut the insides out of bread for egg-in-a-hole.
I attempted heart-shaped bacon. {I was less than successful, but it was still fun.}
The egg-bread turned out great!
The bacon ended up looking more like a little flower, but that still works! I served up a pink smoothie to top it off. A very yummy dinner!
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