We had a super sweet Valentine’s Day at our house…
I saw a great idea on Pinterest where you “heart attack” your child’s door from February 1 through February 14 with paper hearts and reasons why you love your children, ending with a special gift for them on Valentine’s Day. So, I did it for all of my guys (including Tom). One afternoon, after a particularly challenging day, Jonas noticed that there were paper hearts addressed to everybody but me and said, “Mommy, I want you to have hearts too!” (It just floored me that he would think outside of himself like that.) One of my love languages is encouraging words, so I said, “Okay, buddy, what’s something that you love about mommy?” He said, “I love the noise of you reading books to me.” Aw!!! So precious to my heart…one of my sweetest ever mommy moments.
I also did another fun Pinterest thing from the Toddler Approved Acts of Kindness Project with the boys…we read a book called “Heartprints” by P.K. Halliman, and I started passing out paper hearts for the boys to put on our kitchen wall with their names on it along with the kind things they do…it has been so good for all of us to think about (so much so that I’m totally going to keep doing it past February).
Happy Valentine’s Day to you and yours!!!
