Be Mine,

Valentine.
02.14.10

Valentines Day was on a Sunday this Year.
I Rather Liked It.
By Sunday, I Already Been Taken
Out To Dinner Two Previous Nights,
Received Love Notes To My {Heart}'s Content,
and Stuffed My Gut With
Aforementioned
Chocolate Strawberries.

Pictures of the {Heart} Season:

B's Valentine Box.

Let Me State that the Kid

is RATHER

Particular

about How HE Wants

Certain Things,

and

Most of Mom's

Ingenious Ideas

were Balked At

And In the End,

He Got it Just the Way

He Wanted.

I Helped In His Class,

and We BOTH Liked That.

Once the Romance Squashers

(aka Kids)

Were In Bed,

I made a Late

Dinner for Two

Shrimp Scampi.

Bruschetta.

Mint Chocolate Dessert.

Our Favorites,

Paired Perfectly

with a

Good Movie.

{That's Amore}

{LOVElies} Part II

For FHE We Each Recieved
An Envelope with 5 Hearts in it.
We Wrote Our Own Names on them,
and Our Mission Was to Get Rid of
Our Own Hearts by VALENTINES Day.
First, You Did a Service for
The Person, then You Left Your Heart.

It was Grand to

Find Lots of These LOVElies Laying Around:

Been Craving

A LOT of These:

COVERED in Chocolate.

I've Been Dipping Them.

And Eating Them.

By the Bushel.

02.09.10

C Spent a Good Portion of the Day Flipping through a Sticker Book and Carefully Placing Many Stickers of Various Animals, Here and There, and Everywhere, Throughout its Lovely Landscape Pages.

Said I, "Isn't that B's Sticker Book?"

Said He, "No. He Gave it To Me."

"Well, Sticker Away, Then," Thought I.

The Next Morning

as I was Rushing B out the Door,

A Scuffle Came About between

the Two Brothers.

To the Effect of, "C Used MY Special Stickers in MY Book!"

"Didn't You GIVE that Book to C?" Asked I.

"Yes, But HE Wasn't Supposed to Use the Stickers!"

Oh, Mercy.

I Noticed that C was Quite Busy for the Morning

"Working on Something for B", He would Say,

Coming to Ask Me Every Once In A While

Which Letter it was that Made the "Yah" Sound, or the "Kah" Sound.

After I Took C to School,

and was Putting Things Away,

I Saw This on B's Bed:

The Be Favored Sticker Book,

A Favorite Tote,

Sonic Coupons (Always Handy),

a Lovely Drawing,

and a Note

[That Required Sagacious Thought on My Part]:

"To B,"

"I Am Sorry"

"That I Put Stickers in Your Book"

[I {LOVE} That Sweet Boy].

It Seems Apparent

That

Someone Thought

I Needed to

Spruce Things Up

Around

Here.

02.05.10

Tonight
[We Ate Dinner On Our Heads].

{LOVElies}

I got My Bag of Buttons Out the Other day,

and upon seeing My Bag of Lovelies,

the Boys decided to get creative,

asked for some red thread,

and went to work making some

One of Kind Necklaces.

They Gave them to their School Teachers,

with Sweet Notes, all Wrapped Up.

They were So Excited!

B said He thought his Teacher would

Scream, Cry Happy Tears,

and Offer Him $120.00.

[I'm Sure it Crossed her Mind]

I {LOVED}

that Each of their Teachers

PUT it ON,

and Wore it ALL Day,

Among Exclamations of

"I LOVE It!"

*

And

C Got A

Sweet

LOVE

Note

From a

Darling Admirer.

Nacho Night

01.31.10

The First Time We've had Nacho Night on a Sunday.

Movie: "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs"

J Sits on My Plate, Heaping with Nachos,

Spits Out and Rips up Toilet Paper the Entire Time,

and Generally Wreaks Havoc,

Yet His Brothers Notice

None of it,

While they Munch on their Nachos,

and are Enthralled with

the Raining Meatball Scenario.

Stay-Cay

01.30.10

Destination: Not Too Far From Home

Fine Dollar Movie Entertainment

Fine Dining

A

Fine Dip In the Pool

And

a Fine Night of

Rest & Relaxation.

ExtraOrdinary.

Made

ONE of These:

[Took just about Every Ounce of]

[Sewing Knowledge]

[I Possessed.]

And

I've Talked Myself

into Grand Plans

of NEEDING

an Over-Abundance More,

In a Plethora of Colors.