Valentine's is a day of love, excitement, and perhaps for a few of us, a reason to get lucky during the week. Valentine's is also a holiday of low self esteem when you are a mom, when your child comes home from school with that handmade mailbox full of reasons why you suck as a mom.
When I was a kid the only dilemma on Valentine's day was how to write the name of the boy you "liked" on your Hardy Boy valentine. If I write it too big he'll know I like him. If I write it too small, he'll think I DON'T like him. Wait, does this Valentine say "love you," oh I can't send this to him because then he'll really know that I like him.
Now, no one sent me the memo about the competition on Valentine's Day between Moms. That this holiday was renamed, "Oh I'm a crafty wench," for Moms as their children brought in the hand decorated wagon of full of homemade treats and cards for the class.
I thought it was the usual Pinterest game, that people were simply in a pinning war to show other Moms that we can all find the super craft stuff, but no one really DOES it right?
Then the mailbox comes home. One Mom hand stenciled a Robert Frost poem in a perfect heart on a cut out doily attached to beautiful Valentine themed card stock. Another, made her own Valentine paper with seeds of love in the paper, the children should plant the paper and watch their love grow. And yet another drew 27 scale replicas of the Universe with a little "you are here with my heart" decoupaged over the Earth. (Oh very crafty, a learning lesson and valentine?) Then there's the one that made cookies that look like each child with hand lettered love poem for each one.
Me, I sent in the boxes of Candy Hearts. I've got a whole Pinterest board of crap I could do for Valentine's Day but who's got time for that. The basketball game was on last night and I had better things to do.What I am going to do, is find some really crafty Pinterest pin about what to do with all the leftover Valentine crap and pin it to start freaking all the Moms out. Maybe I can create a post Valentine, "Oh I can do crafty things with all your crafty things" holiday.
And you know what, my son went through his box, tossed all the cards and notes, even the exact replica of the human body in toothpicks, and went straight for the candy. Take that you Moms.
How do you feel about Valentine's Day?
