Valentine's Day

I was in  a completely different place when it came around last year . Beyond lowered expectations, I was tired this year. I dropped the ball big time. It's not my personality to wait until the last minute and holidays/traditions are so important to me. I always valued tradition.Through all the pain, surgery and resulting isolation holidays been a way to still feel connected to humanity. Valentine's Day is near and dear to me because it's such a crafty holiday. I made these shirts for the kids:

The girl onesie I made for Riley and her daycare friends



Isaac modeling the "Offical Valentine Candy Inspector" shirt I made



The onesies hanging on the cubbies at daycare

The boy onesie I made

They look impressive but a little photo shop effort and some t-shirt transfer printer paper is all it takes. I was just going to make one for Riley and Isaac, but they only had 5 packs of 18mo onesies so I did one for each baby at daycare. I also made each of Riley's friends a valentine. Since I had some recent experience I decided to make the babies heart pillows. I had all the shirts and heart pillows for Riley's baby friends done the week before:

All the finished pillows (minus Jack's)

Hard at work

I wrote the date on the bottom and Love Riley on the back (Riley's said Love Mommy)

The kids weren't my sole focus I even had a budget friendly, time consuming, romantic idea for a gift for Mike. I enlisted a co-conspirator weeks ahead of time. I really wanted to show Mike how much I appreciate him through the last year, but I totally dropped the ball. Complete failure. I was empty handed when the day came. I didn't even have a note to give him. I was really bummed, but I wasn't alone. Mike didn't have anything either and that includes plans.

I spent the day at Riley's daycare and Mike had a long day at work so we were both really tired. We didn't have a babysitter. We kind of blew the going out budget and babysitting favors on dinner and a movie for my birthday. Isaac was having stomach issues so going out as a family was out. We ended up going through the drive-thru at Taco Bell for dinner since no one had the energy to cook or the patience to wait for dinner.

After a romantic dinner of Taco Bell we put the kids to bed. We watched Castle and House and fell sound asleep with the TV on like a couple of old farts. I guess I'm getting older or (more jaded?) because that was fine with me. I felt tired more than disappointed.

We'll make up for it on our anniversary, I hope.