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Valentines For The Kiddos

February 12, 2016 by Michelle Filed Under: Being a Mom Leave a Comment

Yesterday our kids had their Valentine’s Day party at daycare. And since last year I didn’t have my act together and was making Valentine gifts at 10 o’clock at night, the night before {!!}, this year, I was going to be on it.

I started pinning things on my Valentine’s for Kids Pinterest board in early January.

I picked out the one I was going to make for our kids and their friends by mid-January.

I had the card made by the end of January.

Y’all…I was all over this thing.

I printed everything last week and put them together over the weekend.

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Personally, I think they are stinking cute!!  “Valentine, you are a super star!” 🙂  Reynolds was walking around in his star sunglasses this morning as we were getting ready…talking about how all his friends got a pair yesterday.

Did you make anything fun for your kids for Valentine’s?  Or your kids’ friends?  I would love to know what fun ideas you have!

Oh, and before you go celebrating the weekend did you see my post earlier about my newest adventure?  I’m a new contributor to the Columbia SC Moms blog!! My first post went live this morning: Why We Use Nutella As A Bribe!!  Would love for you to hop over and read that one!

Have a great weekend!!

Paper and Crayons

February 22, 2015 by Michelle Filed Under: Life Leave a Comment

I’m a card person.  A paper person maybe.  I love stationery and pretty things on which to write notes, messages and anything else.  I’m not entirely sure where this love comes from, but as a child my grandparents sent me cards for special occasions and when I was in college I would receive sweet notes from my mom and friends.  It was always so exciting to receive a pretty envelope that you knew was not something about grades or a bill, but a letter…from someone…who was thinking about you.

So in college I had a box of stationery…pretty papers, envelopes and even stickers for writing and sending letters.  It has carried into this home but instead of just a box, I have a little two drawer chest that mainly has all of mine, Reynolds’ and Eliza Jane’s stationery.  Remember last year when I bought thank you cards for the kids from Tiny Prints?  It’s got stationery that I received when Andrew and I got married: pretty red cards with my new initials embossed on the cover.   Cards that Andrew had made with my new initials as well as some that have “Mr. & Mrs…..” which are so special.  Then I’ve got random paper in there like graph paper (from highschool(?!), resume paper, fun scissors, all kinds of pens, markers, color pencils and crayons.

I think it was last year, that I announced to my husband that I didn’t particularly want (need) a gift for Mother’s Day, but rather, I just wanted a card.  And a hand made card…using paper, crayons, markers, scissors if needed, etc.

I got just that.  A card made from construction paper that had a sweet note from my husband, a traced hand of Reynolds and even something from Eliza Jane (who had not even been born yet).  Talk about special.  That’s better than anything I’ve ever received from Hallmark (not that I don’t love Hallmark).  For Christmas and Valentine’s this year Andrew did the same – he gave me an “Andrew card”.  They’re the absolute best!

So today, when I was asked by the Tiny Prints community board what my favorite gift has been so far, I almost said the simply gorgeous lilies Andrew got me for my birthday that were seriously the most beautiful flowers I’ve ever received.  Or the fun dishes I got for my birthday – that a special group of friends had collaborated together on, or even the kimono-ish robe I got in the mail from another friend.  Nope, I submitted that it was the hand made card I’d received from my husband on Valentine’s Day.  Where he used a piece of résumé paper and crayons.  He even drew red hearts on the outside.  On the inside was just a sweet note from him that speaks more truly than any Hallmark card could.

Maybe it was the time he took to do that, and not just his creativity, that makes it so special.  Yes, pretty sure that was it.  But paper and crayons, they’re not just for kids.

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Be Mine

February 13, 2015 by Michelle Filed Under: Being a Mom, Life Leave a Comment

I’m just going to jump right into this one.

Good grief!!  Valentine’s Day is stressful.  Not because of MY Valentine.  No…for Reynolds’ Valentines!!!  For weeks I’ve been looking at and pinning V-day ideas in Pinterest…for what?

I didn’t use any of those ideas!!!!!!!

I guess I was doing it for everyone else?  {I have no one or nothing to blame for my folly}  Ugh.

I don’t know….I went to Target a couple of weeks ago, trying to be ahead of the game {I quickly get behind}, bought the Valentines, the candy and was just waiting.

Last night, I put them together.

Boxes of coversation hearts

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With a fun little sticker

Original valentine

I know…where’s the creativity?!  blah.

So then, I had an extra box (well, 9 to be exact…), so I opened up a box and began to snack.

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First of all…something about the font on these hearts turned me off.  Then I bit into a couple.  Hmm.  Yeah.

“Probably should have bought something a little softer to chew…” I said to Andrew.

“Are they going to choke?!” He questioned.

Some part of me wanted to roll my eyes and shake my head at the dramatic query…

“No, they’re not going to choke” I said.  “But they may have to suck on them for a second…”  Hmmm.  “Not sure what to do about this.”

So Andrew announced that we should make the little “sandwiches” I made the other day…as a fun snack…as treats for the kids.  So then we bantered about who was going to go the store at 9pm.  He of course, lost…er, volunteered, like a good husband 🙂

Back with Nilla wafters, mini wafers and pink icing….I pulled out the Valentine’s confetti and treat bags I had in the pantry…

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Andrew said we were in a race…he was icing the regular wafers while I iced the minis…  He said “this is how Henry Ford would have done it.”….assembly line…

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These little ones make me happy 🙂  Tiny little hearts.

So instead of the kids cracking teeth today…

They’re getting sweet treats, made with love, from Reynolds’ mommy and daddy.

treatsNow, who’s going to eat all those boxes of conversation hearts???

Happy Valentine’s Day, Friends….hope you and your sweetie have a great weekend!

 

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