Valentines Day 2015

Let's get back to the rosier side of life, shall we? Happy Valentines Day! You know what actually didn't make me the happiest though? Finding out on Wednesday that I needed to send twenty seven valentines in with Ashton on Friday for his classmates. I can't believe it, but I pulled it off again folks. I'm not sure if you remember last year's feline holograms, but I overcame that hurdle with stuff I had on hand and this year was even better!

Let's begin with the movie Despicable Me. Actually, let's begin with the fact that our house is very far from being "screen-free", even though I vowed we would be for a long time. Bahahaha. The minute Ashton turned 2 and Mickey kept him still and quiet for 24 minutes, the TV became the easiest crutch going. It was very innocent for awhile, basically Mickey-only and simple shows like Curious George. Nothing too fast or loud. BOY has that changed, and now I can only get the same desired result that Mickey once gave by putting on novel movies or programs that Ashton hasn't seen yet. Even Frozen - Ashton's seen it and therefore, pays it no attention when I press play.

So what's a mom to do? Delve into my free Streampix Comcast stuff, that's what. Under "Kids", "Movies", and there was "Despicable Me 2". I have no idea what this movie is about, but Ashton loves it, calls it "Two Yellow Guys" (referring to the minions) and has watched it several times (in part). WIN.

As luck would have it, the fruit snacks Jason has been buying at BJ's are ALSO Despicable Me themed (purchased before Ashton's love affair with the actual movie), and we had a giant unopened box in the basement. Do you smell a Valentine coming on?

I quickly googled "Despicable Me Valentine printable" or something like that, found a template, added some text boxes for the kids' names and voila!!

So that was actually the one that I made for Ashton as a surprise. Of course he did not notice but I know he loves those fruit snacks and was worried about giving them all away. So I wanted him to have a pack in his Valentine bag when he came home from school.

Anyway, I punched a hole in each card along with a pack of fruit snacks and tied it with a ribbon.

And gave Ashton the box to hold on to until we got to school. 

Little did I know, I was going to be the one to drop all the valentines in all the bags when we got there. Note to self: keep them in alphabetical order next year. 

We have no Valentines Day plans besides watching (sigh) more snow fall. I'm pretty sure I haven't gotten Jason anything and when that happens, I just remind him that he has these two little lovebugs because of me and what could be a greater gift than that. He never argues ;)