Monday, February 16, 2009

Valentine's Day

Sometimes I miss being in the classroom and having a place to use lots of cutesy creativity. Sometimes I miss the fun of making bulletin boards and cute cards and decorations. As a result of not having a lot of creative outlets anymore, sometimes I take way too long and way too much thought in a very ordinary thing. Witness Caroline's Valentine treat bags for day care:


Black construction paper cards. Photo on front with a little puffy heart glued on. Silver paint pen writing inside of card. Yeah, it could be construed as obnoxious. Here's the whole army just waiting to be loaded!

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The Valentine's present from mommy and daddy was given on Friday.


A tiara...




and matching earrings, of which she only wanted to wear one. And honestly, I bribed her to keep this one on for the photo. Also pictured here is her favorite gift of all, heart shaped peppermint patties.

Of course, this is AFTER several of the peppermint patties, and right BEFORE the hyper meter went through the roof! (You can almost see the gleam in her eyes!)


Just for fun, here is a photo from LAST Valentine's Day:


Hair is a good thing, isn't it?? What a difference a year makes!

2 comments:

Carrie said...

So you are one of those over-achieving parents who sends a V-Day (or any other holiday) bag instead of ONE treat attached to the card???!!!

J/K...they are totally cute. The first picture I couldn't figure out that it was just a picture of her. I thought her head was sticking out of an elaborate V-day decoration!!!! Now THAT would have been overkill:)

The Wright Family said...

Yeah, I think some of the other moms start rolling their eyes when I get there, but I just tell them I waited a long time to be able to do this. Honestly, just last weekend Nickie reminded me that we did photo cards for Valentine's Day last year and never even thought about it this year. So, at least I'm slowing down...