Valentine’s Day. The day for cards for classmates and classroom parties with lots of treats. Oh the things I forgot about having a child in school!
Since I was out of town last week, Valentine’s Day just snuck up on me. So yesterday, I found myself at Walmart, digging through the picked over boxes of valentines, looking for something that met my son’s criteria:
- Not girly
- Not so manly that the girls wouldn’t appreciate the cards
- Not dumb
Do you know how difficult it is to find cards that meet those standards on the day before Valentine’s Day? (Mental note: plan ahead next year). I finally found some zoo animal hologram cards. At first my son thought they were dumb, but then he noticed that the animals “moved” when he looked at the cards from different angles. He decided the fact that they were holograms made them cool.
Great, I had the valentines taken care of. On to party planning.
Bug’s school has this cool web portal, where I can see all the homework and class notes for the week. Unfortunately, it’s not useful if you don’t look at it. I looked at it…after I went shopping for valentines.
What did I find? The class is having a valentines party, and all the kids are encouraged to bring snacks or drinks. Great! I don’t mind sending snacks, but when it’s 2:00 in the afternoon, and the kids are headed different directions that night, I panic a little. Just a little though.
I was browsing Pinterest right before I looked at the schools web portal, and I had seen Tara’s cute heart shaped, white chocolate covered rice krispie treats. Yum!
Now I didn’t have time to get that fancy, but I stopped by the store, picked up rice krispie treat supplies, and made red rice krispie treats with valentine colored m&ms. Bug thought they were cool, and that’s all that mattered.
So, we have Valentine’s Day success! The boy has valentines and a fancy looking treat for his class party. Now I can kick back and enjoy the day!
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