Valentine’s Day is always a festive occasion at preschool and the kids get excited to not have to wear uniforms that day!

Miss Becky and Amelia’s class.

Amelia and her BFF, Mila.

Samantha and Amelia made some darling crafts and presents for us for Valentine’s, but for some reason, I only have a picture of Amelia’s:

As the Room Mom for Samantha’s class, I was in her classroom most of the time helping set up and serve. It’s exhausting dealing with all the requests for MORE, constantly reminding the little kids to stay in their seats and telling them dessert will be coming soon for the billionth time, but luckily, another parent was able to come in and helped serve. I don’t know how the preschool teachers do it because I need a nap after just a few hours of being there! I also coordinated with the parents on who was bringing what dish and I’m always scared we are not going to have enough food– it always ends up being the opposite! After the kids were done, we brought the leftovers to the atrium and the volunteer parents and teachers helped ourselves.

Samantha’s main teacher, Miss Holly, was still out on maternity leave and missed the potluck, but all the kids loved having Miss Thashika there to assist, as well as Miss Linda and Mr. Michael.

Jake and I went out the week before so that we didn’t have to deal with the crowds on Valentine’s and had a nice steak dinner at home for our “We Love Our Family Day.” It’s a holiday the girls always look forward to and more fun that feeling forced to celebrate a contrived holiday!

The girls raced through bath time after we promised them fondue for dessert.

Fondue was a brave decision and maybe not the best one!

Meredith gave up on dipping the fruit and just went for the chocolate.

We played a little Valentine’s game where each family member was assigned a colored heart. Everyone took turns spinning the spinner and whoever’s colored heart you landed on, you had to say something you loved about that person. There was a lot of “I love your cooking/cleaning/laundry,” from the girls to me, “You are cute,” to Meredith, and “I love when you play with me and be silly,” to Jake and the twins to each other. We tried to get the twins to think more along the lines of attributes they loved about each other/us, but they were having too much fun spinning the spinner to think very deeply!

Fondue chaos! We may stick to heart-shaped cookies next year!

Lots of love,