It’s Valentine’s Day. woo. The magic fizzled out last night while I made the decision to never ever ever in a million years even if you paid me a boatload of money, make my own expletive valentines ever again. Never again.
I blame Family Fun Magazine and Disney. Thank you Family Fun Magazine sponsored by Disney for coming up with extremely cute, not at all family fun, homemade valentine ideas. I will keep subscribing though.
For Gavin’s class I thought it would be fun to do the Mad Lib valentines. The third graders have been learning a lot about parts of speech this year so Mad Libs are perfect! I made up my own Mad Lib valentine story because that’s me. Heath kept laughing and calling me Domestic Goddess or something like that last night. Yeah, no jealousy necessary moms. Trust me!

Then I painstakingly cut out hearts out of scrapbook paper for the tags. I found black paper with boy phrases for the boys and girl phrases for the girls. Already this is getting too complicated but I didn’t have enough red paper. I didn’t figure Gavin, my son, would want girly pink hearts. I know. I overthink too much!
Gavin wrote to from messages on each heart. The hearts were 1.5 inches so he could have enough space to write. He crammed the message in the top corner. Eye roll. I thought it was cute that he wrote “best friends forever” on his friend’s heart. Nothing on the heart of the cute girl he likes!

Many thanks to my dear husband for mercifully helping me create these valentine scrolls. I rolled up the paper and then tried to tie the yarn and tag onto the paper roll. With my gimpy hand it was certainly a trick and the rolls were all coming undone. My frustration level was rising.
Gwen: Whatcha doing Mommy?
Me: I’m making these stupid valentines for a stupid holiday where people are supposed to tell their loved ones they love them. No other day can they think to say they love each other! Just this one day! Heath, Gwen got me started!
And then he stepped in and rolled while I tied and somehow we managed to fill a sack with enough valentines for all the kids in Gavin’s class including his teacher.
As Heath and I were working I thought of how lame this valentine really is and I could hear the kids in his class. “Ooh! What’s this? Homework? Great, Gavin gave us homework! What a lame valentine. Thanks Gavin.”
We moved onto Parker’s valentines.

I took this picture

and Heath turned it into this valentine. It is pretty cute.
Parker drew a heart to dot the “I” in a girl’s name. Apparently he likes her! Woo Woo!

It was definitely a team effort to get these all assembled last night.

I sent the boys off to the neighbor’s house on a foggy morning with their valentines. As cute and wonderful as the valentines look I will never ever do that again. So not worth it! And to all the moms who are going to curse me under their breath when they see what I’ve done this time, I invite them to read the story behind the cute. Who’s jealous now? Nobody because you all pity me and my crazy ideas. Although I did see a super cute diamond ring involving Hershey’s kisses and pipecleaner that I thought would be fun for Gwen’s tea party . . .