Bullshark bought me chocolate covered strawberries. I made him (and Clownfish) red velvet cupcakes. Nothing says I love you like carbs! Yumm.
Clownfish came home with an enormous bag of valentines. Apparently, most parents make what amount to party favor bags -- pencils, pads of paper, mini-play-doh, tape dispensers, gift certificates -- as valentines. The school has a strict no candy or food policy, so this was the alternative chosen by nearly every parent. And I say parent because I really doubt this trend is kid-driven when the kids are in first grade.
Not our house. Clownfish brought old-school store-bought valentines based on cartoon characters, the same as I did when I was in school. Well, not quite the same. I had Strawberry Shortcake valentines. He had scary looking robot Transformers valentines. Little boys are awesome like that.
We just did cards too (K picked monster truck Valentines). I was shocked when he came home with about a pound of candy! I knew he would get some candy at his school Valentine's party, but every other kid in his class accompanied their Valentine with at least a lollipop and in some cases, candy-filled goody bags! This would never happen if we had sprung for Montessori school... :)
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, I thought it was just me! This was Jack's first school Valentine's day, and I was pretty pleased with our alligator Valentines. But then come to find out just about every other kid brought a big old goodie bag. I was like - WHAT? How did I miss this memo?
ReplyDeleteWhatevs. I'm sticking with old school.
Yeah, this isn't the first year that this has happened. There have always beena few parents who did the goodie bag. It seems like it was *every one* this year, except us.
ReplyDeleteOld school all the way.