The first note John wrote for the kids, he signed them from, "Romeo, the elf." Trevan did not understand why Romeo was leaving notes and gifts. "Who is Romeo?" he would ask. I helped him figure out that it was his dad, though John still denies it.
Last week, when I was volunteering in Trevan's class, the teacher was showing the class how to make Valentines. She got to the part where they sign who it is from, and how you should sign your name. Trevan raised his hand, "Or, you could put a sneaky name who it is from." He said it with a big smile on his face, and nodded his head as he said it, all excited like. The teacher was like, "Okaay..." I just stood there and laughed, I thought it was so funny. I later explained to his teacher why he said that.
So, this is the Valentine Trevan made for John that day. He was so excited to put it in John's envelope. He just kept laughing about it on the way home that day. It says, "I Love you. (from) a sneaky elf named Brody Hamilton."
This is what Mallary puts in my envelope:
She loves me so much, she leaves me the wrappers.
On a seperate Valentine's note, John and I went out on Saturday night... You remember last year, right? Well, I got some flack for that post, and I need to clarify for any that may read it for the first time. First, John read my post before I published it. If I write about my husband in a way that can be perceived in any kind of questionable manner, I let him approve of what I write before I publish it. Second, this is an ongoing joke, so while we were sitting in that concert, he thought it was funny that we were there too. When I re-read this, I did sound kind of mean, but I didn't add the part that John said we could leave if I wanted to. Anyway, with that said....
We had a busy weekend. I threw a baby shower on Friday, I had to finish and mail an order, we had plans all morning and early afternoon on Saturday as well. John said with all of our plans that I ruined his Valentine's plans... So, we were sitting around Saturday afternoon, and John went into the garage for some reason, for a while. When he came inside, I asked him what he was doing outside. He replied, "Nothing, I just went and asked Linda (our neighbor) if she would watch our kids so we could go to dinner for Valentine's Day."
"So, you didn't plan anything in advance?" I know, I am a little mean... No weekend getaway? No trip to the moon? Really, people those are not my expectations. I just like to know that he has thought about and wanted to do something special for me.
So, in the car on the way to the restaurant, I joked around with him not planning in advance. But, it was a fun evening together. The wait at the restaurant was an hour long, so we decided to do a little shopping while we waited, and drove to a nearby mall, and our little buzzer thing started playing a little tune, over and over, because we were out of range. We drove back to the restaurant because that had never happened to us, and it stopped. So, we drove back to the mall, and left the buzzer in the car singing it's little batteries heart out.
I got two new shirts that "hide" my post baby belly, because I still have no clothes to fit me (I know, I know, it's been ten months!). I was very excited. Then we drove back to the restaurant and they said the wait would be thirty more minutes. So, we drove across the street to Sally's to get me some more shampoo (I only use ONE of these bigger bottles a year, crazy, right?), and some clips for my buisness. Well, I have never seen a Sally's so busy, ever. And, it was almost closing time. So, we are in the check out line behind the slowest woman ever, and our buzzer goes off. We had to wait there in that line forever with it still going off, but then it finally stopped, and we were sure that by the time we got back over to the restaurant they would have given our table to someone else.
We were finally able to check out, and raced over to the restaurant and they said they hadn't called us yet. But we were called a few moments later.
It was a very nice UN-PLANNED evening out with my love. Thank you John, and thank you nice neighbor!
Happy Valentine's Day!!
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Peter doesn't have the best track record either but he really does try. I always give him a list and he tries his best to find something not on it. If he does go off of my list it's usually the wrong item or a different version of it. It took me a while to realize it but I'm very lucky he tries. I also have him read everything I write about him so I don't upset him.
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