Making Valentine's Day Specialish

Pin It Now! I try to make holidays special for my kids. Mainly because when I interviewed some grown ups for my book and asked them about special memories with their mom most of them talked about how she made holidays special. And how she had special birthday plates for them. So I went all out for Valentine's Day this year. Not Pinterest-all-out, but Totally-Desperate-Mom-all-out. I made this breakfast.

But let's face it - Valentine's Day is really just another day in the motherhood life. With lots of added sugar. But everyday life doesn't stop. Meltdowns still happen. Dishes pile up. Moms still run out the door to take their kids to school leaving their kitchen a mess.

And when moms pull up to the drop off area at school on Valentine's day, children still forget their shoes at home and have to turn around and go back home to get them.

Kids still wake up with rat's nests in their hair and don't want it brushed. And when you give rat-nest hair child her Valentine's surprise she ungraciously says "I don' want play dough. I don't like play dough. It doesn't even have my favorite color." I guess Valentine's Day is also "I've-decided-my-favorite-color-is-yellow Day."

Sons around the world still forget their note card for their speech at school on Valentine's Day. Snake speeches still happen on Valentine's Day.

And people, you know, like husband people, still have to work. In fact, my Realtor husband wrote two offers on Valentine's Day and showed property to three different clients. I think that's a record and clearly home buyers and sellers don't care about the big Valentine's Day. But that's okay because if those turn into sales then we can eat and pay bills and maybe I'll get Botox. Just kidding. Botox before bills. BBB. It's my slogan. My theme. Use it. Pin it. Nah, just messing with you. I will cling to my wrinkles because I think cracks are cool.

And moms still can rock the Momfit on Valentine's morn.

So I guess what I am trying to say is "Happy Valentine's Day because every day is Valentine's Day in my house. Minus, the heart shaped pancakes and pink hot chocolate."

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