Be My Valentine

Last Friday was Valentine's Day. Forget the hearts and flowers and mushy stuff...this has turned into another day to give presents to the kid. Let's face it, he is way more fun to shop for! The last time we tried to go out to dinner turned into Restaurant Tour 20??. We tried to get into about 5 different restaurants just to end up at McDonald's.  If anything, we do dinner out on/around my birthday a week later, so no big deal. And while flowers are nice, it's an insanely expensive for something that's going to die in a matter of days. Besides, I'd be more surprised and excited if he brought home a bouquet from the grocery store.

Valentine's Day is more focused around the school party these days. His class just does a small party (no room parent involvement), which worked out great this year because it was only a half day of school. Logan picked out Star Wars Valentine cards last year when they went on clearance (he wanted the Yoda head they came in lol) and he wanted to go ahead and use the cards. I have had these red plastic sand shovels living in my closet for a few years and was tired of looking at them, so we made a treat with them as well. Logan is always vague on school details, but here's what I did gather from the school party: a grandma came in and had them all decorate cupcakes and everyone got a stuffed monkey.

Hard at work on his Valentines

Presents! 

Matt's new mug

Presents

I was so glad it was a short day. The weather turned nasty in the morning and by pick up time it was awful. The short drive to the school wasn't too bad. We decided to venture on to the promised McDonald's lunch. Of course when we turned onto the street near City Hall the emergency vehicles were going out. Between this, the weather, and cars backed up at a light, we ended up detouring and went to the McDonald's opposite of what I planned on. The roads were awful. The south lane had not been plowed and visibility was pretty much zero. Coming back was better since the northbound lane had been plowed. We turned on to a side street near us that looked like it hadn't been traveled. Lots of fun in the ol' mini van lol.

When Matt came home that evening we decided to order pizza. Then we exchanged our presents. Matt got a new coffee mug, I got a new Precious Moments figurine and Logan got some Legos, candy and Sully from Monsters Inc.

It was a good day.

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