Valentine's Day is so fun when you're a Mama. :)
A few weeks ago I went on a mother - daughter shopping trip with Molly and picking up valentines was number one on our list.
Have I mentioned how much I love the Dollar Store? It allows us to make incredibly sweet goodie bags for super cheap. I am completely fine with just getting some valentine cards and calling it good, but how awesome it is to see the shit eating grin on my little gal's face when we can spend only a few bucks and we have super sweet goodie bags she can hand out to all her friends!
For Molly's goodie bags we got clear bags, two different kinds of candy, stickers, pencils, and valentines. She couldn't wait to put her friends' goody bags together! She even did a fantastic job writing her name.
Once Anthony saw that Molly was making little goodie bags, he wanted to also! So back to the Dollar Store we went.
For his valentines we bought the clear bags, pencils, two different kinds of erasers, silly drinking straws, some heart gems, two different kinds of candy, and boy and girl valentines. For the teachers we bought a couple valentine themed glasses (they could be vases?) and filled them with candy. I also picked up a few valentine themed glasses for Molly's preschool teachers as well.
Anthony had a lot of fun filling the bags and writing his and his friends' names on the valentines. It was really good writing practice for him. We made a great team, he and I!
Ok Valentine's Day! We are ready for you! :)
With love,
Mama Hauck
We are now 9 days into Timothy's hernia surgery recovery and he is doing very well! His bandage was removed yesterday night and his incision looks wonderful. It's bigger than I thought it was going to be, but it's healed up nicely so far.
What a little trooper he is!
With love,
Mama Hauck
This month we are taking a trip to NY for my brother's wedding and Timothy sure seems excited about it, as well as the packing process!
I think I need to break it to him that he can't travel via suitcase though. Haha
Packing is such a pain. Really, who enjoys it? I do it for the whole family and have to start a whole week before we actually leave in order to do it right! I'm trying to pack small and light, but it's hard being that it's winter and boots and warm clothes take up much more space then flip flops and tank tops. We also have to pack all of our wedding attire, and dresses and suits take up space. Hopefully we can make 2 suitcases work for our family of 5 because I completely forgot we have to lug along 2 booster seats and a car seat. Yikes.
Our flight is an early one and with having to be there 2 hours before our flight and with it taking us a bit over 2 hours to even get to the airport......I'm not looking forward to getting on the road at 2:45am. The 6 hour long straight flight to NY with 3 children (one being a lap kiddo) sounds amazing as well. And when we land, we still have a 3 hour drive from JFK to my Aunt's house. Hopefully we can all survive our long travel day with minimal melt downs and causalities.
Ok, all of my packing and travel complaining aside, we truly are looking forward to this trip! It'll be nice to be back in NY for a few days and get to spend some time with family and friends I haven't seen in a long while. And the reason we are going, to witness my brother be wed to his beautiful gal, is more than enough reason to endure a couple rough travel days. :)
Well, better get to packing and marking things off my to-do list!
With love,
Mama Hauck
