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Valentine's Day
Re: Valentine's Day
My little nuggets
I am such a crab about V-day, not sure why, it's not like I am a single lonely girl but this holiday just annoys me.
We will go to work and school as usual, come home and cook and do the same routine. I am making a "special" dinner and will make heart shaped rice krispie treats tonight for the kids and red velvet something for DH. I got the kids little gifts, bags filled with their favorite goodies, and I am sure the grandparents will come over and spoil them as well since every holiday apparently calls for presents. DH and I don't do gifts, just cards.
Just found out DH has off Friday for a doc appt so we may try to sneak in breakfast somewhere as a "date". We didn't plan dinner out anywhere this weekend because I just feel so guilty asking our parents to babysit since they help us out during the week with Anna. I really need to find a local babysitter!
Jonathan Dean 4.5.08
Anna Capri 5.4.11
DH and I don't do anything either. We actually have a history of getting into little tiffs on this particular holiday so it's for the best we treat it like any other day.
I am however taking a half day at work because we need to meet with a genetic counselor in the afternoon. Even though we won't be doing anything special, I'm looking forward to the extra time just hanging out together.
Vday isn't a big thing and I usually just make a nicer than normal meal. But this year our daycare is doing a "parent's night out" on Friday until 9. So we are going for a fancy dinner...at Miller's Ale House, ha! We are just going to have beers and bar food.
DH usually sends me flowers but told me this year he would not be doing so and we sort of got into a minor argument over it. My retaliation is to send him cookies to work, to hopefully embarrass him
going to a midwife appt.
heartbeats are romantic!
I'll my internship until 9:30, so Mr.Beagle will have a romantic meal with the cats
We just went away for my birthday, so that was our celebration. We don't do anything for Valentine's Day except exchange cards.
Maybe he'll get lucky. We'll see.
I have an OB appointment too. My husband will probably be working mandatory overtime due to this impending "snow storm" and will have to miss it which means he'll have little sleep which means no V-day celebration for us...not that we ever do anything anyway.
Valentine's day in our household is usually NOT a good day. I like to celebrate it, DH refuses to do anything - I'm lucky if I get a card (although last year "DD" gave me Pandora charm which was very nice).
This year I will be making dinner like any other night and I got DH's some candies and little things. DD is getting a super cute little bag and tonight I need to put together the valetine's for her toddler class at school.
#1 12.11.11
#2 10.23.13 EDD
I too have an OB appointment and DH is off, so I'm looking forward to seeing the monsters in utero! It's a 16 week ultrasound, so I really hope to find out the sexes. I tried to find gender neutral bibs or onesies that say something about "Dad" but my search failed me today :-(
We always do cards & dinner - this year dinner felt important on vday since next year will probably be dramatically different. DH usually does flowers and usually is the one day out of the year he does that.
The kids and I will meet DH for a super romantic lunch at Olive Garden on his break between students leaving and report card conferences starting. Then we will probably pick up some heart shaped donuts and go see my dad so DD can give him the card she made for him. Tomorrow night I have work, and the kids will come with me- the after school program at work is having a little party with pizza and snacks so DD will be in heaven. Then my boss and I will probably order in "better" pizza for ourselves for dinner (our new Thursday tradition).
I had a glass of wine on Vday when I was pregnant. I was due in May. The kid has ten fingers and ten toes. The sad thing was that a sip of my beloved red wine gave me terrible heartburn even though I didn't really suffer from heartburn when I was pregnant. Still get the heartburn when I drink red wine to this day. Oh, the injustice!
My husband is off on Wednesdays, so I surprised him by also taking off so we could celebrate Valentine's Day yesterday. We went to the Barnes Foundation for a tour in the morning, and then went to R2L for lunch. Great view of the city, but I was not overly impressed with the food given the price.
It's been several years at least since we exchanged gifts or even cards. We usually just do a nice dinner. I think I got flowers last year, so we'll see if any show up today.
We both took off tomorrow to have a "date day" since dh has been travelling so much and we also don't have a babysitter to go out otherwise. Being Valentines day was pure coincidence. I don't know what we are doing yet, but we will probably spend most of the day in the city.
I normally get him a box of his favorite girl scout cookies (although this year I forgot and can't get them until tuesday, so I'll tell him I forgot them at work).
dd got him a little chocolate motorcycle and I'll have her scribble on some paper.
That's it. We don't really celebrate.
DD: 6-24-11
EDD: 9-20-14