How did everyone's Valentine's Day go?

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How did everyone's Valentine's Day go?
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Wed, 02-14-2007 - 6:23pm

Ours went surprisingly well, although the day is not over.

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Wed, 02-14-2007 - 9:30pm

Hi Evelyn!

My boys had fun at school! Tyler's class had a contest on making their valentine day boxes. And he won 2nd place!!! Most original! YAY! And he wasn't even trying! lol Tyler, of course dug right into his valentine's and spread them all over the floor after school. Tyler also informed me that he had tons of treats and was full of sugar! lol Nathan, said they had treats, but can't remember what he ate! lol I'm sure not much, he's so particular about what he eats! And Nathan's valentines are still just sitting there. I think I will have to sit him down and help him go thru them. He doesn't seem all that interested. Although, stimming like crazy yesterday all excited for today!! lol

As for me, not doing anything. I did get a nice card from nathan that he made at school though. Now that I'm working, I'm having a hard time fitting everything into my schedule. I just seem so busy all the time!! I do wish i had a valentine myself, but....maybe next year.

michelle

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Wed, 02-14-2007 - 9:32pm

I got the sense the candy in Liam's room was minimised big time, and most of it was sent home.

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Wed, 02-14-2007 - 10:00pm

Well we had another snow day today, so there was no school. Not that it would've mattered. Our school doesn't "DO" holidays. None of them. Last Friday they had "Kindness Day" where every student had to say/write something kind about every other student in his/her class. UGH! Sorry, I know it's "progressive", but I WANT MY VALENTINE'S DAY BACK! It was always my favorite holiday. (Mainly because my dad died right before Christmas when I was 12, so Valentine's Day took over the top holiday spot.)

Kids and I had fun a home together...and then tonight, we all went out to Lone Star Steakhouse for dinner.

Amy

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Wed, 02-14-2007 - 10:40pm

Well, homeschooling makes for a quiet uneventful Valentine's Day for Malcolm, no school celebration, no huge amounts of candy, although the schools he went to really didn't do those kinds of things at all, certainly not candy. Dh and I don't like going out on VD in NYC, too crowded, so dh and I went out for quiet romantic dinner and movie last night Tues. and actually had a pretty decent time for once. Lately we have just been too tired to really be any fun...

Today I woke up to find lots of roses, that's a tradition. Also big huge box of chocolates, Valentine's Day was the day my husband really indicated he was interested in more than just friendship all those years ago and he did it with big box of chocs and a VERY goopy, romantic card. I was frankly fairly shocked, because at the time, after several years of knowing him, I really had no idea he was interested until that gesture. Still took him 2 more months to actually ask me out after that.

Ds had OT and social skills group this afternoon, group made cards for each other as an activity. Afterwards, group and all the parents had a snowball fight down the sidewalks, first big snow to speak of in NYC, kids were thrilled.

Dh and I do consider Valentine's Day one of our anniversaries... So right now, I am waiting for ds to fall asleep (later night homeschool schedule, as dh the main daytime homeschooler, stays up later computering) and then once he falls asleep, we can PROPERLY celebrate Valentine's Day.

Sara

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Thu, 02-15-2007 - 12:22am

I'm begining to think we just shouldn't celebrate holidays. We have a little boy in the neighborhood that is German ( is 10.5 and lived 8.5 years in Germany) and so while he knows English, he has a bit of difficulty. Well poor boy decided to hand make Valentines. He gave Bryanna hers and had misspelled her name Briana. Bry just said thank you J and handed him her bratz valentine she got him. When J handed Victor his, J had spelled Vic's name Whicter. Well, Vic didn't have a meltdown, he said "J , I don't mean to hurt your feelings but my name is with a V not a W." He didn't understand so I helped him realize what letter we were saying and he was embarrassed but said was polite. I've already sat down with J and told him that Vic has issues with considering others feelings, so if Vic hurts his feelings to tell him.

So all is right with the world when the kids take off for school. Victor gets to school and is SO sad that he has his head down on the table waiting for school to start. The school yard advisor noticed and asked him what was wrong. Come to find out, Vic left his Valentine's cards at home. Unfortunately, he forgot the house phone and called my cell, which was turned off til the end of my morning class at 11am. His message said "Mama, could you bring me my cards by 11". I felt so bad that I didn't even get the message until 11am. I got him his cards by noon and it was like a lightswitch turned on and he was happy again. Unfortunately the damage was done. His poor teacher gave him a straight face for the day and said he was unmotivated to work. I wrote her back explaining that it was probably the Valentine fiasco that caused it and he'll be better tomorrow. Bless his heart, when I handed him his cards at lunch, he told me "I was telling people that I didn't deserve any Valentines because I couldn't remember to bring mine to school for them." I was completely distracted for my afternoon class. Felt so bad for him but I told him that now that he had his cards, all is right with the world, and his day improved.

Was a VERY exhausting Valentines. ONly good thing that happened was hubby did remember Valentines without me having to tell him.

Alexis

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Thu, 02-15-2007 - 1:24am

Alexis,


That story about Vic and the valentines is so sad and sweet.

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Thu, 02-15-2007 - 8:25am

We started out great. DS (AS, 8) brought me breakfast in bed complete with a homemade valentine. He was so excited that I was pleased with him (versus being angry that he made food without permission - a constant struggle here). We had no school due to weather, so the rest of the day was spent trying to find activities for all four kids to do to keep them from killing each other. DS was so out of sorts that nothing I did was any good. We made cupcakes, but they weren't the right kind. We played in the snow, but I was a terrible mom for not letting him jump on top of the pool cover. We did crafts, but there was "nothing good" in the craft box. I made hot cocoa, but *gasp* it didn't have any marshmallows, so I completely ruined his holiday. It was the "worst day of his entire life" and I was to blame. SIGH.

I seriously am going to call the psych. today and make an appt. to talk about a mood stabalizer. Looking forward to a better day...

Melissa

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Thu, 02-15-2007 - 9:11am

In teacher's defense, she gives him ALL sorts of chances before she breaks down and puts the straight face, and he has to have completely shut down before she'll give a sad face. So when she wrote "A lil unmotivated to work" she wasn't saying that there wasn't an emotional tie to it, just that she got frustrated today and didn't know how else to handle it. It makes her upset to give him any face other than a smiley face.

LOL, Ms. A has given Victor smiley faces on days that Vic has come home and said "I didn't have a good day Mom. I was angry all day", so he wasn't upset about the face yesterday, he just agreed that today will be better.

Plus side, since being with this teacher, he now gets up at 6am so that he's ready for school an hour early and has time to play ( did I mention he does this on his own now... the kid that HATES school).

Alexis