Here is our Annual Valentine's Day picture:
(We do a picture like that every year, same layout. Check here, and here, and here for years' past.)
Last year, we set up these treasure hunts for the kids. You know, where we leave a note for them, which leads them to the next note, which leads them to the next, which eventually leads them to a Valentine's Day treat. I could hardly remember doing that, until the kids started talking about how they were excited for the Valentine's Day treasure hunt.
So, the lesson here, is that if you do something magical for your kids once, they will remember it forever. And that is how traditions get started. But this is okay because I like traditions.
We write out the clues for the older two kids, but Vern draws the clues for Peace:
And then we had a heart shaped pizza from Papa Murphy's for lunch (also a tradition):
And then Ocean set up a treasure hunt for all of us as well, at the end of which she had gotten each of us a treat. She got me Scotch tape, Ezra a slinky, Peace some toy, and Vernon got super glue.
All of wore red or pink or white today, but Ocean looks particularly festive:
And that has been our Valentine's Day so far.
Tonight, Vern and I are going to the romantic comedy The Wolf of Wall Street. Should be good.
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