Friday, February 1, 2013

{valentine's day} 14 days of valentines countdown


I had meant to print these and share them on the blog yesterday but totally forgot, and woke up this morning and realised it was already the first of February! How did that happen?

So this morning I printed out the 14 Days of Valentine's cards you can find here, and decided on an activity per day as an advent style countdown to Valentine's day. In years past I have written something I loved about each kiddo and hubby but I thought it would be nice to do the activities this year, plus some days were hard to keep up with 3 notes a day for each of them. This year I will still use the cards as 14 little notes for my hubby, and will just do a random note here and there in the kids.

I popped the first card into our little countdown bucket this morning, the kids haven't touched it yet but will get them to read it soon as it says we're going out to dinner in the city :o} To be honest, it's just stuff we would be doing anyway with only a couple extra special things thrown in. The kids just enjoy countdowns to anything I think! 

Some of our other activities as part of our Valentine's countdown are:
decorate valentine's cookies
make love notes for each other and our family
make valentine's goodies for friends
have movie night together
have a candle lit dinner
go out for ice cream
make some valentine's handprints
go out on a milkshake date
read our valentines books in the tent

and we also have a few other Valentine's craft ideas thrown in, as well as a "Celebrate Noah" day since it is his birthday before Valentine's day.

I know Valentine's day is usually / traditionally between a couple. But I jump at any chance to do little things like this for my kiddos as well. That doesn't take away from the fact that I adore my hubby, but it's just a little extra fun in our home in the lead up to Valentine's day. My Mum used to leave us a little bag of chocolates and tie heart shaped balloons to our chairs on Valentine's morning. It always made us smile :o}

What do you do in your home for Valentine's day?

xx

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4 comments:

  1. Bianca, like you I like to include the whole family on Valentine's Day. The week leading up we decorate our dining area and make things to give family and very close friends (or to use as decorations). Last year the kids helped make their Dad breakfast in bed and shared a special Valentine's treat with him (on the Saturday morning before Valentine's Day), afterwards we went shopping - we each drew a name and had less than $10 to spend on a family member (I think it may have even been $5 for the kids), we wrapped the gifts up (in recycled paper) and put them in gift bags (also recycled and revamped) to give on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day we had Valentine's heart shaped cookies we had made and decorated with our breakfast and everyone opened their special gift bag. After school the kids had a special cupcake at afternoon tea. In the evening we set our table and dressed as if we were going out to a restaurant, including Valentine's placemats the kids made earlier in the week. We had a lovely homemade dinner and enjoyed it by candlelight. After dinner we read out Love Notes we had spent the week writing to each other. It was lovely. Thank you for these printables, they will be a lovely addition to this year's celebrations.

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    1. That is so so lovely!!! What a beautiful way to spend Valentine's day! Thank you so much for sharing xx

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  2. Any little thing that shows the ones we love how important they are is a good thing!

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