Valentine's Day

Our Valentine's Day is PACKED.  We have two hours of our after-school performing arts club, then Kendra has musical theater dance class shortly after dinner.  So we got our Valentine's stuff together for school this weekend and decided to go ahead and celebrate together early.  We went to see a movie on Saturday (a rare treat) and gave each other our gifts.

Kendra went right to my teacher's heart and got me these GREAT pens!  Perfect for grading papers.  I love fun colors to grade with!

This is way, way, WAY more than I usually spend on a V-day gift, but we have wanted this complete set since we had our HP movie marathon over Christmas.  So, technically, it was a family gift.  Kendra was THRILLED!

You know those moms that search over Pinterest and make all those adorable, hand-crafted Valentine's for their kids to give to their classmates?  Yeah, I'm not one of those moms.  I have forty-one kids I take care of for 8 hours a day---that's not including my own precious kiddo---and frankly, I don't have much left to give to crafting, folks.  So yep.  We get the store-bought variety.  I picked these for my two classes of kiddos--they are so apropos because I call my kiddos "Nerds" fairly often (with utmost affection and humor, of course!)

Kendra has been receiving an allowance since the beginning of the year so she purchased all of her Valentine's gifts this year.  She decided upon SweetTarts Valentine's for her class and the pens for me (have I mentioned I love them?)  Kendra has a special end-of-day responsibility at school--she picks up about 8 little kindergarten bus riders and escorts them to their buses every day.  She also wanted to do something special for them, so she bought these:

They each get to choose a rubber ducky and two treats

 I'm hoping that I can run down to Kendra's class tomorrow for just a minute to see her at her LAST school Valentine's Day party.  Sigh.   Happy Valentine's Day!