How we celebrate Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope everyone had a lovely day yesterday. I meant to get this published yesterday but the day got away from me.

In our household we like to decorate for all the holidays. It’s part of the fun living all together. We have our mantel decorated, our dining room, and our entryway. It’s something the girls, especially Z, like seeing.

Eric and I don’t really celebrate Valentine’s Day for ourselves. It’s never been one of those holidays I feel particularly attached to. Maybe it’s because our anniversary is in a month and I’d much rather spend money on that than this holiday.

But, I enjoy doing things for the girls. My parents always tried to make things special for my siblings and I growing up and I like to try and have those traditions with the girls.

New traditions this year

For this year, I made the girls (and myself) matching Valentine’s Day shirts. They liked them and H even wore hers to school.

I also like to get them a few presents. Nothing really big, but just a few things to brighten their mornings up. I found cute cookie pops, heart lollipops, and candy they each like to give them with their shirts in the morning.

I love breakfast food (as I mentioned in my last post) so I took the time I had yesterday and made the girls heart shaped pancakes. My first attempt at them, I filled the cookie cutter with the batter, but forgot to spray it with cooking spray, so the pancake stuck. Afterwards, my mom suggested to just cut them out of the pancakes. Which makes much more sense.

The rest of the day, H had school, so Z and I went to the park to play. Earlier in the week, we had made some heart sugar cookies. I’ll be sure to post the recipe – they’re not too sweet and easy to make.

Eric surprised us all with flowers when he got home from work. The girls were so excited to get the flowers. Z wanted to put them in her room so she could look at them when she was in there.

In the evening, we went out to dinner at our favorite pizza place, Your Pie. All in all, it was a nice day yesterday. It is great being able to continue traditions that I had growing up and my parents getting to join in with my kids,

What’s your favorite tradition for Valentine’s Day?