Class Valentine’s Party

Valentine’s Day is always a fun day at public school and I didn’t want the girls to feel like this was yet another thing they were missing. They hadn’t even mentioned it, but I knew they would think about it eventually so we put together Valentines to mail last week. I secretly asked some friends and family to send some to us too so they could have some to open at the  “class” party. Several friends dropped bags throughout the week and I managed to keep it a secret so the party was a total surprise 


I decorated after they went to bed and they had no idea. So after a little bit of reading to start the day, I brought them in to the dining room for the fun. It wasn’t quite as elaborate as what I did at Christmas but I found a few decorations at Dollar Tree and had enough planned to last about an hour and a half. We did a few science experiments 

Played a few “minute to win it” type games. Lillian won all 3 but I told her not to brag too much when her competition is 3 years younger 😉 


And we made a couple a couple of crafts before lunch

It was fun and I like that they had so many friends/cousins bring things by and send things so it wasn’t just the grownups of the family showing the love. (Not that they don’t get excited for those too but I know they miss kids). 

On a different note, we are very excited this week that this happened!

Matt got the Covid vaccine and the 2nd dose should come in 3 weeks! It doesn’t really change anything we are doing today but I feel like a few weeks after his 2nd one we may not worry so much. I’ll get mine when I can but there is a light at the end of the tunnel! 

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