Valentine's Day

I don’t know why. . . but I like to do homemade Valentines for the kids. I know it is kind of stupid because they are just thrown away, but I like to be able to make something that the kids will be excited to give and that fits their personalities. And it is tradition! It is getting a little better that we're down to only one class set a year, since at our school only 3rd grade and younger take them. But there have been years where we've made 3 class sets! (I used to make them for my class when I taught school too.) So here are Chandler’s for this year. He thought they were awesome and that was all I cared about!

The day before Valentine’s Day Chandler told his teacher that he always got sick on Valentine’s Day so he hoped to be there for the party. She kind of laughed at him and told him he looked healthy. Well . . .at 1:00am Valentine’s Day morning, Chandler’s little face was in my face saying “Mom, I have an earache.” The first thing I did was chuckle and ask, “Chandler, what do you have against Valentine day parties?” (The ironic thing is that we had not even discussed it this year and he had not told me about his conversation with his teacher!) So I got up and got him some Tylenol and sent him back to bed. A half hour later or so he was back saying that it was hurting even more. I had him climb in bed with me. He just tossed and turned and tossed and turned. Soon he left and I figured that the medicine must have kicked in. It wasn’t long until I heard him in his bedroom sobbing. To make a long story short. . . I was up rocking, singing, back-scratching, cuddling, getting heating packs, drinks etc. with him until he *finally* fell asleep at 5:30. We decided that he should stay home from school. I got him a doctor appointment and off we went. The doctor took one look at it and said, ‘this is the kind of ear you need to see a picture of’. It took him a while to find the book and he finally came in and sat back down (obviously not your everyday ear infection!) He said it had a special name (can’t remember it) and that they come on suddenly and with a vengeance so it was it wasn’t surprising that we were up *all night*. So we got him drugged up on enough pain killer, got him an antibiotic and by noon he wanted to go to school. His teacher and I had a good little laugh about his prediction and for once in his little life, he was able to get to a Valentine’s Day party!

In other Valentine Day news, Tom got me some beautiful roses. . . I’ve always told him that I’d prefer not to have flowers. . . I like them and all, but if you’re spending that kind of money, I’d rather have clothes. But he also got me 3 Shade t-shirts. . .been really wanting some of those so I was excited about getting both :). And he took the day off today too! So spoiled am I!