Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day! Here’s hoping you enjoy a fun day. If you don’t have a significant other, I recommend curling up with a box of amazing chocolates.

If you love Harlequin and Silhouette books, I have some $1.00 off coupons to share! They arrived in my mailbox yesterday and I’d love to pass them on to readers. Just send me an e-mail with your name and address and I’d be happy to send them your way. I’d rather they go to people who love reading romance. I have $20.00 worth of coupons, so the first 20 folks who e-mail me will receive them. Just go to your local bookstore and hand them the coupon with your book and it’s redeemable at the register (I don’t think they work online).

Last night I was a Good Mommy ™ and baked cupcakes for my daughter’s Valentines party. I also made a cutesy shoe box with paper hearts and addressed all her valentines to her classmates while my son practiced his handwriting and addressed his own (and thank goodness for that!). Then a horrible thought occurred to me. For the past six months, my daughter has been in the Stegosaurus daycare classroom. Last week she started transitioning into the next room up, the 3-year-old class of Triceratops. This means she spent a few hours in the room each day until Friday when she spent the whole day. She is now full-time in the 3-year-old class, as of yesterday.

I had to get a printout of the class list from the main office in order to address her valentines. But I have a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. What if she wasn’t penciled onto the Valentine list passed out to the parents last week? WHAT IF SHE DOESN’T GET ANY VALENTINES?? Can you imagine?

It reminds me of those times in high school and middle school when they passed out secret valentine-grams to people. Don’t you remember how the popular girls would get a bazillion of them, and the rest of us would pretend like it didn’t matter? But I love my sixth grade boys. They send them to themselves. Smart men.

So back to the important Valentines stuff–topic. What’s your favorite kind of chocolate to receive? For me, it’s the Russell Stover Caramel assortment (BIG HINT TO HUSBAND HERE). Mmmm….:banana:

P.S.–check back later and I’ll let you know how the 3-year-old valentine trauma plays out.

Update: The teacher didn’t realize she was left off the list. On the bright side, many parents didn’t write To: on the valentine and she got some of those. Also, a few parents who are friends of mine knew she had been moved up and added her in. Catastrophe averted!

And guess what my husband got me? A new lemon tree.