{Heart}-Day

You know what was GREAT about Valentine's Day this Year?

That it was on a Saturday!- Which meant a whole weekend Of Love-y things!

On Friday I had a candle-light breakfast

for the kids before they left for school

-with heart healthy pancakes and fruit!

These are the Valentines we made for the boys' classes

middle child worried that the girls 

would think he was asking them on a date,

but much to his relief,

he said not one girl got the wrong idea!

[sha-wooh!]

I helped in the first-grader's class for his class party

and 

later that night,

we went to a Valentine's Dance hosted by our friends!

there was a live band, lots of yummy food,

and we got to dance our legs off!

I'm married to such a fun Valentine 

with Awesome Dance moves!

Come Saturday,

the actual Day of Valentines,

I had to reattach my legs from dancing them off,

and get out the door for a VDay run-

(truly, it was only because I'm training for a marathon)

but when I got home,

I had a bouquet of flowers waiting for me,

and my running app gave me the chocolate heart badge! 

 The evening portion of the day was so wonderful!

Husband dropped my off at my sister's house,

and her and I got fancy-shamancy,

and then when our Valentines came to pick us up,

they brought us back to our house 

where they had the most WONDERFUL

Dining experience set up for us!

They had hung lights everywhere in the dining room,

pulled out the fancy china dishes,

and had cooked up a Delicious and well planned dinner!

They had the kids all well behaved and each played a part

serving us and answering our every beckon call!

They had made drinks, appetizers, and salad, and

grilled salmon and steak and veggies,

and for dessert they had made fondue,

and cakes and cookies and fruit to dip.

Truly, we agreed that this experience was more Special

to us than going out to dinner somewhere.

That they had planned and cooked and co-ordinated,

and been so thoughtful- was something to really Love.

It was relaxing, it was completely enjoyable,

and it spoke heaps of LOVE.