<p>Tarhunt~</p>
<p>Well, I’m sure that neither could compete with YOU! ;)</p>
<p>Berurah, it all depends on how unruly the choir members are…</p>
<p>:p</p>
<p>I bought my H the perfect valentine, too… but it’s in a bag on my chair in the kitchen, and I’m in a hotel room on the opposite coast (sigh). </p>
<p>So I got up early and wrote him a little love poem and emailed it to him. In it I mention the perfect valentine which I will give him when I get back. :)</p>
<p>Well my dh gave me some earrings and “says” he had a card too but somehow managed to lose it walking from one end of the house to the other??? Is that possible?? He even accused Rosie, our younger dog, of eating it!! She does like paper but typically she leaves a lot of evidence after she goes into destroyer mode.</p>
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<p><strong><em>ROFLMAO</em></strong> ANDI!!!</p>
<p>My advice…take the earrings and count your blessings! :D</p>
<p>haha…love, ~berurah</p>
<p>Well one of us is getting old and forgetful…and it’s not me!!!
Is this an indication of the future? Maybe in ten years we’ll both forget where we put our cards and we’ll have to just describe what they said…if we can remember!!</p>
<p>^^ Well, if MY house is any indication, it is ENTIRELY possible to lose a card going from one end to the other, pets notwithstanding <em>sigh</em>. </p>
<p>Last night, I was up 'til all hours helping my youngest make a Valentine box (school assignment…THANKS, teachers! :eek: ). S chose a “Snakes on Planes” theme featuring a plane made of an oatmeal carton and styrofoam with gummy snakes. That damn project left a path of destruction a mile WIDE…which I’m looking at right now with NO motivation to clean up! 
S3 thought of the saying, though, by himself…It said, “DANGER!! Love is in the air!” <em>ROFL</em> Gotta love eight-year-olds! :D</p>
<p>Berurah-
You are hilarious!!</p>
<p>DH got me a really cute card that makes an amorous monkey sound when you open it.</p>
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<p>I guess only a boy would come up with that combination!!;)</p>
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ROF!! Wow, wish you could reproduce that over CC !! Not quite sure I could distinguish that from a regular old everyday monkey sound!!</p>
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<strong><em>ROFLMAO</em></strong> O.K., cm, now <em>I’m</em> the curious one! :eek:</p>
<p>About the plane project…Disaster doesn’t begin to cover it. First of all, hot glue and I are sworn enemies! 
I remember one project my oldest D did in fifth grade…when asked by the teachers to evalute the project, I wrote simply, “My daughter learned MUCH more about the properties of hot glue on styrofoam than she EVER did about the Old West.” OY… I did, however, use that hard-won knowledge with this Snakes project as it involved both hot glue and styrofoam in copious amounts <em>sigh</em>. </p>
<p>And then there was the spray painting. I have learned one piece of new knowledge…spray paint was never MEANT to be applied in 6 degree weather!! :eek:</p>
<p>Of course, the paint was not dry enough to glue on the “snakes” until this a.m., so you can imagine how relaxing my morning was (not to mention it was picture day for D3…who does THAT to parents on V-Day???). Still, the look on S’s face was worth it, and he had a blast gluing on the snakes! He even stuffed them inside the “engines.” <em>ROFL</em></p>
<p>I’m gonna pm you a link to some pics! :)</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Last night I found boxes and boxes of chocolate in a corner of the kitchen.
My 8 yo said, “Mom, look at all this candy!!” “Shh,” I said, “I think it’s supposed to be for Valentine’s Day.” (H is never good at hiding things).</p>
<p>This morning H went out the door with the whole stack of boxes–for the girls at the office, you know :(</p>
<p>Pizza tonight?</p>
<p>berurah-lol–glad my kids’ school uses brown paper bags–colored at school–for their valentines.</p>
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YEAH!!! And make him run after it!!! :eek:</p>
<p>awww atomom he just better be planning on something for you tonight!! If not you’re going to have to read this:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=298826[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=298826</a></p>
<p>OK, so it’s not romantic, but for Valentine’s Day, Husband of 27 years gave me a box of Nyquil and watched the day care kids for three hours while I slept. And considering this was a snow day so we had a few extra kids, this was a huge sacrifice on his part!</p>
<p>Peg
who has strep throat</p>
<p>My husband and I are getting the best presents yet-TWO new hot water heaters!!! Seems one when out yesterday and as they were installed together my plumber figures we should go ahead and replace both. They are tied together so we just turned up the temp on the one that is working so I would have time to price shop which heater I wanted. </p>
<p>How many other people can say they are getting his and her’s matching hot water heaters for VD day?</p>
<p>My DW found the perfect Valentines’ card for me. It said that she loved being me even though it’s challenging.</p>
<p>Packmom,</p>
<p>Valentine’s Day actually got better at my house when D2 was born on the holiday 21 years ago. I was thrilled to get a new baby for Valentine’s Day. My H and I told her when she was growing up that she was the best V-Day present we ever received. </p>
<p>Before our Ds came along, H and I just exchanged cards. When D1 came along, H and I continued just exchanging cards, but we bought a pretty heart-shaped box of candy for her every year. With D2’s arrival, V-Day became a day to celebrate. H bought flowers for the girls and me every year, along with his traditional card. I bought candy for the girls and a small gift for H. And, of course, we had birthday cake and birthday presents. As D2 got older, we usually went out for dinner on V-Day.</p>
<p>I’ve always enjoyed having Valentine’s Day combined with D’s birthday. I have gotten quite a bit of teasing about it from a close friend over the years. My girlfriend, who came to the hospital to be our older D’s coach when her sister was born, accuses me of having ESP. Throughout my entire 2nd pregnancy, I predicted that my child would be a girl and she would be born on V-Day in a snowstorm. That’s exactly what happened :). ( I promise I really don’t have ESP. I simply knew exactly when I got pregnant and figured that if baby #2 came 2 weeks early, just as her big sister did, she’d arrive for V-Day. I figured that with my usual luck, it would be snowing when we had to trek to the hospital for the birth. Feb. 14 is, after all, the middle of winter.) </p>
<p>V-Day has not quite been the same since D went away to school. I miss the big celebrations. We’ll drive to Florida to see her this weekend and will deliver her presents and a cake, but it’s not quite hte same. Kids are determined to grow up aren’t they? I can hardly believe that my baby is now officially an adult!</p>
<p>The weather here is making me feel nostalgic today. We got snow and freezing rain yesterday added to the 6 1/2 inches of snow we got last week. It looks a lot like the day D2 was born. The trees are sparkling like diamonds. Mother Nature has painted quite a beautiful scene here for Valentine’s Day.</p>
<p>Dancersmom, Tried to call S last night to say Happy Birthday and he didn’t answer. Guess he was out with friends. Hope he got my email and the b-day card we sent. He chose to order his own gift online and just requested we send the $$ to cover it. Wow, you’re driving from KY to Fla. S is only 3 hours away but haven’t seen him since Christmas. S1 was 20 yesterday, seems a lot older than 19. S2 turned 17 on Dec. 30. When asked if he would like us to take him out to dinner, he said “No, I’ll just eat with the guys”. They ate at Wendy’s! Boys are just SO different than girls when it comes to that stuff, well mine are anyway.</p>