Showing posts with label valentine's day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label valentine's day. Show all posts

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Nailed It

Why doesn't anything go the way you picture it in your mind?  I had the great idea of having a few kids over for a Valentine's Day Cookie decorating party.  OK, so maybe I did see the idea on Pinterest, but I made it my own and I think we nailed it!

The boys came in the house and immediately broke one of my kitchen chairs wrestling.  I made the heart shaped cookies while they beat eat other up. 

Pinterest Pin

NAILED IT!

Then came the part where I hand make the different flavored icing, and they sit quietly and decorate the cookies.  The boys ran off with cookies UNDECORATED to go throw spring onions at each other, the girls sat and waited. 

Pinterest Picture
Oh man, did we NAIL IT!


I planned 2 hours of fun cookie decorating according to the Pinterest pin, the kids were done in 10 minutes then proceeded to wreck the house and they worked through their sugar high.
My son even bypassed the cookies and squirted the icing directly in his mouth.

But I wanted something healthy for the kids so I tried the Pin - Cheesy Cauliflower Bread.
Here's the pin.

And I SO NAILED IT!

Honestly, the kids liked and ate the breadsticks because I left out the part about there being cauliflower in them.

Now onto my next St. Patricks Day party.  Oh we are so going to NAIL IT!

At least there's beer involved at each of the parties, makes them much easier!

Thursday, February 14, 2013

What is Valentine's Day

I pulled into the carpool line, car fun of balloons.
When they opened the door, two escaped.
The shout from all the kids waiting as they went away in the afternoon sun.
Life is all about doing something different.
About surprising those that you love with a quick,
Lunch,
I love you,
You mean so much to me that
I'll spend my time with you.

Remember that this isn't just a single day in the year.

It's a thought for a lifetime.

PS.  Can you find my child in there?

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Let me call you Sweetheart!


How many different pins on Pinterest did I pin?
A whole board of Valentine ideas.
What did I end up doing?
What the kids are going to love anyway.
The ritual of passing around candy hearts on Valentine's Day continues.
He's asking me which one he should give to a little girl.
My heart skips, and I sigh.

Thank goodness I've given up candy for Lent, they may make it through the night.