Pink and Green Thursday

That Time of Year

I realized while grmbling to take the last christmas stuff down that I had to do it.  Why?  So I can crack out the Valentine's Day stuff!  Hallmark Holiday my ass. I collect heart shaped things so if you give me an excuse to decorate for it... I sure will. Starting right here..

Happy Heart Day

Spin Cycle: Valentine's Day

See that hat on B's head? Make the hearts pink & attatch it to her head since Saturday- that's what I've been looking at. Why? In honor of Valentine's Day! The kids don't have school today so she is currently playing with her Twilight dolls in her jammies, with the hat on.

I love Valentine's Day because I love anything heart related but I'm not a pushover. If you aren't good to me the rest of the year then you're not going to win me over with a batch of flowers your buddies are suggesting you buy because they are THE standard gift to give. Nope. You need to put some thought into it & you need to show me that you know & pay attention to ME. Not that it's all about material stuff. Not by any means.

In this house it's all about the little things. The hearts on every window, the conversation hearts in candy dishes, the homemade Valentine's for school. The 100 cupcakes I'll be making this week for three classes and home. I was putting their Valentine's away and looking at them, how much they personalized each one.

"BFF" with a heart around it

Stick figure drawings of B with her bestie.

Tons of extra hearts drawn in various colors.

I very faintly scribbled "I love you" to a little boy that at age 5 proposed marriage, then suggested a backyard wedding.

Those are the sweet things that matter here.

Read more spins at Sprites Keeper.

Cupcakes

I have to admit, I'm glad my kids were sick this week & not next. We're on a long weekend, no school Monday. Then it all gets crazy. Tuesday-Thursday school is out at 11am because of teacher confrences. Friday & the following Monday, no school. Next Thursday morning is their Valentine's Day parties & being a homeroom mom means I'm in B's class all morning. I'm bringing a cupcake tower so I'vebeen collecting cupcake ideas all week. I'm going to do the Valentine's Day Funfetti cake (Red Velvet for the batch that stays home) & I want to decorate them all differently.

Some ideas:

Fleeting Thoughts

My kids are sick with the same creeping crud that every other kid in B's first grade class seems to have. Cough, sore throat, sinus headache. The weather isn't helping here at all. 20 degrees one day, 52 degrees today. It might be rain it might be black ice, who knows?! But they felt like crap today & I suspect they'll be home tomorrow. I figure its better to give them tomorrow rather than send them to school only to be called halfway thru about fevers. They missed my best friends' sons' (got that?) birthday pool party today. I was bummed for them & bummed for myself because I wanted to go.

That's another thing, the birthday parties! There have been SIX in the last 2.5 weeks of January!! WTH?? I told the girls we had to pick & choose. 6 is a bit much don't you think?

Another BFF has reconnected with her firstlove. I mean, they dated at 15 and haven't seen each other in 20 years. Until last night when he was at her house to reconnect & yes, there were sparks! Thank Facebook.

I am trying to stop replaying the crushdriver stuff in my head. Trying. I'm supposed to see him Tuesday so... we'll see what happens.

I have to play Homeroom mom twice in the next 2 weeks. On the hundreth day of school there is always a big celebration. B needs a 100 of something project done & then I'm in her class half the day to help out. Also in there on the 5th because it's Miss Ruby day. I need to come up with a Valentine's Day craft to do with them. I'm thinking I'm going to do cupcakes for them. A tower of cupcakes but all decorated differently for Happy Heart Day. The project has me stumped though. I guess I need to go wander around Michael's until it clicks.

B's artwork today: