Month: February 2019

Valentine’s Festivities!

I love holidays! I love having an extra excuse to make a day special by wearing something festive, eating an extra treat or something, and decorating the mantel and/or table! And Valentine’s Day is especially wonderful because the whole holiday is about celebrating love! I feel exceptionally blessed to have always had lots of love in my life, and it is most definitely worth celebrating!

The first festivity to enter the Valentine’s scene this year was the mantel! (It is the best place to start, so it frequently is the first thing, but not always.)

I thought the flowers made everything quite cheerful and sort of springy, despite all the snow outside.

I got to help out with Carter’s preschool class Valentine’s party on the day before Valentine’s Day. It was so fun to see Carter interacting with the other kids in his class and be part of their fun crafts and sharing their valentines with each other. Fay and Carter each insisted on home-making their valentines this year. We used up almost all our construction paper and valentine stickers! I think they were quite proud of their work, too.

All the cute kids with their owl valentine bags.

A month or so ago I came upon this fashion blogger who decided to design and create a dress for each month of the year. Her dresses are all super over-the-top and you really couldn’t wear them anywhere; but I liked the idea of designing and creating seasonal dresses for myself. I started with a Valentine’s Day one. I made several significant blunders as I was constructing the dress; but on the whole I think it turned out fun. It is a red crushed velvet fit and flare with a white heart cutout thingy on the back.

Sorry for the lousy pictures. I probably should have actually posed and had somebody else take the pictures. Oh well. I still had fun wearing it!

On Valentine’s Day proper, we had heart hole-in-the-wall (I stole your idea, Kathryn), strawberry milk, and doughnut holes for breakfast! I think everybody enjoyed it. Fay had her class party at school and loved every second of it. And for dinner we had yummy tortellini, which Josh made for us. We also invited my brother Morgan over to share the evening with us. He was good enough to take a picture of our festive family together.

Portia’s shirt and Helen’s pants are made of leftover fabric from my dress. Portia’s shirt turned out better than this picture suggests, and Helen’s pants turned out way worse.

I also took the liberty of taking a picture of him at dinner.

After dinner we went out for ice-cream courtesy of Mother and Daddy! We went to Leatherby’s and got a brownie sundae and another sundae. It was all so delicious!

The day after Valentine’s Day the city hosted The Daddy Daughter Princess Ball at the library. We missed it for some reason last year, so Josh and the bigger girls just had to go this year! I stayed home with Carter and Helen. Carter and I had a games night with snacks followed by our own dance party with fancy lights to make it extra fun!

At the ball everyone got a crown, and the girls each decorated their own princess wand. Then there was a show where a bunch of Disney princesses sang songs from their movies. After the show the girls got to meet some princesses. They chose to meet the princesses whose dresses they wore to the ball.

Photo-op at the ball. Fay as Aurora and Portia as Ariel

See! What’s not to love about holidays?!

And I just wanted to include some other pictures for the sake of remembering them.

Portia being a two year old girl. No wait, she’s a fairy!

Helen hanging out in her favorite spot–the bathroom sink–getting into some hood-rat mischief. And being so cute!

This is a “Don’t get mad; get the camera” moment. I was in the kitchen with Fay when Helen crawled in covered in pen markings. I called Portia in and saw that she too was covered in pen markings. I asked her about it and she responded with “oops.” That was the same response she gave when she pushed Helen off the step-stool in the bathroom. I’m so glad they are both still alive.