{"id":1620,"date":"2009-02-13T10:02:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T16:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2009-02-13T10:02:04","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T16:02:04","slug":"happy-valentines-day-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=1620","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentine&#8217;s day&#8230;  Sort of."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to decide what today is.  Is it Valentine&#8217;s day?  Is it Friday the 13th?  Is it V-day the 13th?  Well, whatever it is, it will be a fun day.<\/p>\n<p>Valentine&#8217;s day for the elementary school kids really is where it&#8217;s at.  My kids have spent the last week making valentine&#8217;s boxes, which I just realized I forgot to get pictures of before they left the house.  Oh, well.  Maybe when they come home.  They&#8217;ve also had fun writing out their valentines.  It&#8217;s good practice for the 5 year old to write his valentines.  He gets to write his name over and over, which is a good thing for him.  And you know there will be parties and candy.  I&#8217;m helping out in Jenna&#8217;s 2nd grade party today.  I am supposed to do the craft, and I always end up picking crafts that are too hard, and can&#8217;t get done in the time we have.  Well, not this year.  I&#8217;ve picked about the easiest craft you can get, <img src=\"http:\/\/familyfun.go.com\/Resources\/craftimages\/1205_finger.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>and hopefully we&#8217;ll have time left over to play simon says or something silly like that.<\/p>\n<p>My junior high kids have not done anything at all for valentine&#8217;s day.  They didn&#8217;t even ask me to buy candy to give to their friends.  Oh, wait.  I take that back.  Megan wrote little poems for her friends.  But it&#8217;s no big deal for them, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>As for me and my sweet heart, we have a ward party thing tonight.  It&#8217;s &#8220;Macho Chef Night&#8221;.  That means the men are supposed to whip up their best recipes and come and impress everyone with their mad cooking skillz.  The funny thing is, men&#8217;s cooking usually revolves around the grill, and it&#8217;s the middle of winter and no one&#8217;s going to be grilling right now, are they?  So,we plan on showing up and having many great MEAT dishes, and DESSERTS.  Because men don&#8217;t make anything resembling fruit.  Or salad.  There will be lots of GREAT meat dishes and dessert dishes, though, I guarantee it.  That doesn&#8217;t bode well for my Biggest Loser challenge, where I have to weigh in tomorrow morning.  I have only lost 4 pounds in almost 3 weeks, and this week I haven&#8217;t really exercised because of this lingering sickness and overall feeling of ick.  So, I can&#8217;t just go and eat only meat and desserts&#8211;ugh.  I&#8217;ll have to try to eat only veggies and fruit all day so I can have my share of MEAT tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, on the real valentine&#8217;s day, I&#8217;ll be up at the crack of 7 to go to two basketball games and a soccer game.  I&#8217;ve also got books for my kids for valentine&#8217;s presents, and that&#8217;s about it.  I picked up books while working at the book fair, but after I picked one for Megan that I thought she&#8217;d like, I see it on the counter yesterday.  She&#8217;s already reading that book from the school library.  I can&#8217;t give her that book!  I&#8217;ll have to see if I can exchange it today while I&#8217;m at school.<\/p>\n<p>I heard on that radio that according to some survey, this song is the #1 romantic song of all time.  So, if you are planning a romantic rendezvous of some kind, you might want to make sure this song is loaded up on your ipod.  Or something (for those of us who haven&#8217;t entered the world of ipods and technology, you know.)<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/t-idDbIfGvw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/t-idDbIfGvw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Or you could just sing it, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RIPwZDhAc6A\">this guy here<\/a>.  And if you click on that link, you&#8217;ll understand why I didn&#8217;t want to embed the whole thing and put it here on this here blog.  Ick.<\/p>\n<p>And a few words about my dear husband.  My sweet hubby who last night in the car told my son that &#8220;There&#8217;s only one know it all in this family, and I&#8217;ve already got it covered.&#8221;  He&#8217;s just so sweet, isn&#8217;t he?  He&#8217;s the man who sent me this romantic ditty.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.savagechickens.com\/images\/chickennaked.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t he the greatest?  Well, he stole my heart years ago and still has it.  How could I not love him?  Well, to my dear sweetie, I say, back at you, babe.  You are the best.  And there&#8217;s a Costco right close to your work, and they have lots and lots of roses, in case you were wondering.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.savagechickens.com\/images\/chickenpoetbotcount.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to decide what today is. Is it Valentine&#8217;s day? Is it Friday the 13th? Is it V-day the 13th? Well, whatever it is, it will be a fun day. 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