LOVE.

I LOVE Valentine's day.
Sadly, it typically doesn't equal a very romantic day.
I think several small children & lack of budget might be part of it.
But one day.
In the future.
I'm holding out for the days when the kids can be home by themselves
& Luke & I can spend an entire day,
heck, maybe even a entire day & night,
& when we have more money
(& we're not trying to build a new room onto the house that drains all of our funds).
THEN we're going to make a big bang out of Valentine's.
Right honey?

This year's Valentine's was nice though.
Luke & the boys made me Valentine's cards.
I made Luke a homemade card too.
And we gave the boys a big sucker with a stuffed animal
with a homemade card (of course!).

He also brought me home a beautiful arrangement of flowers
(does it count when I told him I wanted flowers when he walked out the door?!).

But the most precious gift of all
that didn't even happen on Valentine's day.
It was a note I found on my way into bed a few night before
& it read this...

(I love mom)

I think this made my day, maybe month,

heck...it made my last 5 years!!!

I love this new stage of learning letters & writing words.

I hope there's many more of these sweet love notes to come.

Luke surprised me & took the day off (his late day at work too!)

I hired my cousin Ang to babysit for a few hours (thank you!)
& we went to Maple Grove to shop a little & eat out
without kids!

Time went too fast, like always,
but we had fun together
AND Luke purchased some green skinny jeans....
now we're talking romantic,
or more like...SEXY!