...and Valentines Day!
As mentioned last week, we already checked off one of our traditions with the Daddy Daughter dance. However, another tradition is the actual Valentines Day cards that the girls bring to school for their sweet friends.
Not once, in the all the years (I think its four years as I was still on maternity leave for her first Valentine's Day) that Little Miss has brought Valentines Day cards to school has she brought the simple, store bought cards that we gave out as kids.
Nope, rather, I succumbed to the pressures of raising kids in Pinterest-Driven-World have made homemade Valentines Day cards, often scrambling to get them done the night before, or even the morning of. As stressful and unnecessary as this is/was, at least they turned out super cute, right?
Sadly, I can't find the ones I actually made, but use your imagination and just pretend that they looked as good as the originals:
And in all honesty, I thought this year would be much of the same. I even started "pinning" ideas a few months ago and had largely narrowed down my choices to these:
That is until I spent a kid-free Saturday morning wandering around Target.
And found a bunch of super cute, pinterest looking Valentines Day cards all ready to go. So I did what any sane mom would do and snatched up entirely too many
And then left it up to the girls to decide which to give their friends. After much thought and deliberation, Little Miss choose Princesses and Superheros (shocking) and Littlest Miss choose (i.e. was left with) Ponies and Dinosaurs. Now all Mommy has to do is assemble them...which given my love of procrastination may be easier said and done. At least it didn't involve late night runs to the FedEx Kinkos store.
It did however require me to stay up WAY past my bedtime trying to tie on 64 different toys to 64 little cards. Good thing Target pre-cut the baker's twine and pre-punched the cards. Oh and thank goodness for washi tape. Any loosely tied toys were easily secured.
All in all, I think they turned out pretty cute, don't you?
But what about you, what are you doing for your kids Valentines Day cards this year?
And lastly, speaking of Target, I saw this mug on Instagram today. I think its my next purchase as its 100% truth.
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