I love Valentine’s Day. Not for the gifts or the candy but I think mostly because it’s all about my favorite color – PINK! I know, I am such a girly-girl.  Anyway, today I am totally wiped! This has been the most exhausting Valentine’s Day ever…but it’s been great.

N8, Will and I got dressed and were downstairs by 9 am this morning and N8 offered to help me make pancakes.  We made two for he, David, and myself and then a small baby one for Will.  They were yummy.  After David left to get going to work I gave the boys their special Valentine’s from Grammy & Popo.

N8 loved the stickers with his race car Valentine card and he loved the $10 gift card to Target.  Will listened intently as I read him the card – almost as if he was comprehending its message.  He seemed to want to eat his gift card.  Since both of them still have their $5 gift cards from T, that’s 30 bucks all together that works just like CASH at my favorite speding hole!! They’re rich!  That’s an awful lot of snack bar popcorn.  Maybe they’ll pool their money and pick out something nice for their mama?? Yeah, right. 

After opening the goodies, I got shoes and coats on everyone and we headed out the door for a busy day. 

I had to swing by Wal-Mart to pick up some photo cards I had ordered but had forgotten all about until my sister reminded me last night over the phone.  Then we made it just in time by the skin of our teeth to storytime at the library.  It was a small crowd…must’ve been the weather.

After the library we headed over to one of my favorite sweet places, where I picked up a mini carrot cake for David, which is one of his favorite types of cakes.  Doesn’t it look yummy?

(note the pink and red mini cupcakes -guess which one’s mine and which is N8’s?)

Then we ran through the drive-up window at the post office to get stamps for the aforementioned photo cards.  This is where I really got a smile on my face.  The postal worker was super nice (very unusual) and along with my stamps and change, she included a little Hershey kiss with my purchase.  I kindly smiled and thanked her and she wished me a Happy Valentine’s Day.  How sweet!  I love people that are just kind for no reason.

After our errand at the post office it was almost time for N8’s parent teacher conference up at preschool but he and Will had both fallen asleep in the car.  At that point I knew it would be more trouble than it was worth to actually drive home, unload everyone, then 30 minutes later load everyone back in the car to head to the school.  Instead I decided to make a couple of calls I needed to and get caught up on some motivational reading I’ve been needing to do.  So I headed over to the school parking lot and just waited till it was time for our meeting.

David met us there shortly before the meeting and we met with N8’s teacher for his progress report.  He’s doing great!

After the conference we headed over to Jack Stack for a special Valentine’s Day lunch.  Will was not in the best of moods but we all survived. Lunch was yummy and there was much to bring home.  Afterwards, David headed back to work and the boys and I got ready to head back home, however, as I was driving out of the parking lot I realized it was 3:37 pm and N8 had to be at catechesis by 4:30 so it made absolutely no sense to go home, unload the kids, then have to turn around and reload them into the car in 15 minutes so that we could leave in time.  So we just took our time getting to our destination and as a result, arrived just in time!

After catechisis we all headed back home…finally! After a little bit of playtime Will is fast asleep and N8’s of course waiting up for his daddy!

It’s been a busy, fun, but exhausting day!

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UPDATE:

The time is now 9:48 pm and Nathan is FAST asleep!  The lil’ dude was falling asleep on the couch so I went over and woke him and took him upstairs to get ready for bed.  The kid has not been to bed this early in LONG, LONG time.  He must realize his timing is perfect since it IS Valentine’s Day.  Maybe he wants a sister? HA! Keep dreamin’, little man….at least for another year or so!