Valentine's Day 2011

This year, our Valentine's Day was celebrated over a few days.  Oh what fun!


A few weeks ago, Noah expressed that he was a bit sad that he was going to miss out on decorating a box to exchange Valentine Cards with his friends at school.

My heart broke and I knew I had to do something to keep his focus positive on a day that is meant for LOVE!  With my broken heart, my mind started to work over time!

So THIS was the plan!

First, we made a Valentine's BOX to collect Valentine's cards!

Then we hide Valentine's Cards all over the house to find during a scavenger hunt

(Noah's most FAVOURITE surprise activity).

Noah sets out to collect all his Valentine's Cards

(they were hidden where all the sticky hearts are)

Once he found all the cards, he opens all his treats. 

 

Once he opens his cards, he sees that each of them were addressed

TO: Noah  LOVE: each one had a different LETTER

(that he figured he had to spell something).

It ended up spelling:

GREAT WOLF LODGE

And with that,

we told him that we were going to Niagara Falls the following weekend to go to Great Wolf Lodge!!!

How exciting!!

WHO SAID HOME SCHOOLED KIDS

CAN'T HAVE FUN WITH VALENTINE'S??

On the weekend (before Valentine's Day), Noah surprised Jacques and I with breakfast in bed all decorated with a Hershey's Kiss and a little candy heart that said 'Love You'!!!

NOTHING, starts off a day better than with your child making you breakfast in bed!

THEN,

on Valentine's DAY, I did a little something special for Noah.

I wrote him a note, put it on his night table that told him to STAY IN BED.

I brought him a special breakfast in bed that included:

Pink Banana Pancakes, topped with peanut butter, cool whip and decorated with heart candies

Hot Chocolate, decorated with cool whip and heart candies

Apples (in the shape of a heart) and Grapes

He LOVED it, and this was a first for him (to have breakfast in bed).

We had SO much love celebrating Valentine's Day this year.

Noah even bought me a Toblerone ROSE, with his OWN money!  I was so touched by his heart and generosity!

We finished it off by shovelling lots of snow, considering out snow blower is in the shop.  ALL hour and a half of it.  I called it our 'Grown-up Valentine's night'!!!

We had fun at the end, burying each other in the snow.

We felt LOVED so what more could you ask for!

It wasn't my idea of what I wanted Valentines day to be