Love is in the air! Well "something" is in the air over here. Love at my house must smell like bacon and boy feet...
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, I've started thinking about the dreaded "school Valentines" dilemma. I love a holiday that revolves around the color red and any excuse to eat candy (oh yea, yea, and love), but picking out school Valentines is like a supreme court deliberation. Oh. The. Pressure.
I usually trudge around store to store, hunting around for the best deal for 90 Valentines (Yes, I said 90!) , and looking for a Valentine that does not violate the "boy code" of Valentine giving. There is a detailed list of criteria for school Valentines for boys that rivals NASA's liftoff check list:
- There can be no mention of "love" or "kisses" or "hugs", because that is so "ewwwww!" and you will be witness to a full fledged freak out of, "This one says love! I can't say love to my friend Cameron! Moooom!"
- There can be no "girl" stuff on them.
- No pencils or erasers, or anything else that doesn't involve a piece of candy.
- Has to have some kind of candy directly attached - and it has to be the "good" kind of candy. No peppermints, sweeties or tootsie rolls. No recycling of the dredges of your Halloween candy (darn)!!
- It has to incorporate something "cool" or "funny" like fire, superheros, crossbones, four wheelers, ninjas, burps, or any other things that would impress a 7- 11 year old boy, and maybe one or two girls.
Why don't I let them pick out their own, you ask? I tried that once and lets just say, that we would probably still be standing in the Valentine aisle from last year, and someone left the store in tears - it wasn't the kids.
So I got ahead of the school Valentines game and made some great valentines that everyone will love, including your picky kids:
TA DA!
What? You can't see them?! Oh, that's right, that's because my computer is a hunk of junk and won't read the disk that have these awesomely cool Valentines pictures on them. ARHGGG! So while I curse at my laptop and try to repost them, here are some great ideas other fabulous gals came up with:
Zakka Life (Free printable)
Check back later for pictures of my ideas - or pictures of my computer in the garbage, whichever comes first.
~Angela
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