Have A Little Valentine With Your Sugar

Valentine's Day has never been my favorite holiday, or even time of the year. I am usually ready for winter to be done by now, and cabin fever starts to take hold. However, having a fabulously involved son, who eats, sleeps and drinks fun and celebration, has helped encourage me to suck it up a little, and get involved. And let me tell you...involved, it is.

It has become as exciting as Christmas around here. Every morning, Chase wakes up with the roosters and runs to his mailbox. There, he retrieves a "sweet" surprise, left by Mom and Dad from the night before. When I say sweet, I mean suh-weeeeet.



Monday, a treat. Tuesday, a treat. Wednesday, love letters written by Mom and Dad, accompanied by a treat. Thursday, a treat. Friday will be stickers, and a treat. Saturday...we're skipping Saturday. Sunday, wait for it, wait for it...a treat.



Some of the other "sweet" things we've been up to? Monday night, a "love-ly" Family Home Evening, topped off with a heart shaped treat that had doubled as an object lesson. Tuesday, Chase woke up to a "heart attack" in his bedroom.

Wednesday, Chase had a play date here, with a friend from his kindergarten class. For an activity, we made adorable "ice cream" treats (a sugar cone, topped with two pink meringue cookies, held together by melted chocolate chips). ADORABLE!! These really turned out cute. The boys were equally cute WITH them. They wrote each other a nice note, exchanged them, then dropped them in the bottom of their ice cream cones before assembly. Why no picture, you ask? They were devoured before I remembered to snap a picture.

Let's continue. Today, we made homemade V-alien-tine cards for him to hand out during his class Valentine's party tomorrow. These were sooooo fun to make together.



Tomorrow, I am turning him loose with the camera, with the assignment of taking a picture of everything he sees that is a heart, looks like a heart, or can be made into a heart. Sunday morning, our final destination, we are having heart shaped pancakes and muffins for breakfast, heart shaped sandwiches and cheese for lunch, and individual heart shaped pizzas for dinner, with heart shaped brownies for dessert.

Not a bad way to celebrate my least favorite of holidays. This has been quite the week long heart, and sugar fest. By the time Valentine's Day officially comes, we will have one, highly energized cherub, with one mean sugar rush, and hopefully even less cavities. But more importantly, he will hopefully be more aware that he is one, loved boy.

Happy Valentine's!