So as everyone has to do with crazy work schedules, you kinda have to adapt and overcome and be flexible, so this year for Valentine's Day we celebrated on the 15th! It was my night to plan and our paper from the jar of dates said to write love notes to each other. So I let JT know about the love note part but all the other stuff I wanted to do was up to me!
I kinda scoured the Internet for interesting, cheap and inventive Valentine's Ideas to make it special at home and came up with a few things that I have been planning. I took to all my craft supplies to make an interesting, semi creative love letter and actually had alot of fun with it. I also make valentine felt fortune cookies for each of us to write notes in during our dinner.
So yesterday afternoon I let JT know that we were getting take out from one of our favorite restaurants, Bistro de Asia, to pick out his favorite and write it down for me. I picked out a dress that he bought me YEARS ago from a friend of mine, set out all the accessories in a separate bathroom, so that we could get ready separately. I placed and picked up our order while JT bathed Jocelyn and put her to bed. I got out our nice dishes, served up the food (made it look less like take out), got some candles, wine glasses, flower and some other accessories to personalize the table. Oh and I found this questionnaire that JT and I took 4 years ago about what we wanted for dates and in our love life with our spouse, it was a nice little personalized touch from the past!
So all that was set up and ready to go, I got dressed and met Jonathan in the dining room, and boy did that man LOOK GOOD :) Okay I'm bias but he really did look great! So we sat down enjoyed our dinner, while talking about this questionnaire and what has changed in our opinions on dates over the past 4 years which was alot of fun! Then we started talking about our past valentines and pieced together all the things that we could remember from them ... and learn from them, LOL. Then we read our love letters.... I wanted to be able to read mine to him but I knew that I wouldn't make it through it, so I had him read it but there were some that he couldn't make it through either :) It was a really special time to read what we each though of each other and how much we loved each other.
Then came the homemade felt fortune cookies... we each had 6 and I supplied paper and pens and we had to put 6 things down and stuff them in our fortune cookie for the other to read! This was by far MY FAVORITE part of valentines. He did such a wonderful job writing down meaning things that he could do for me, such as teaching me how to cast a line (fishing), host a girls night at our house for me, etc etc And even though this was on the fly and he didn't have much time to think of things, he really knew what it was that would make my heart melt!
So Valentines Day this year was a huge hit and we had alot of fun. Oh and the best part (there were alot of good parts) was the jewelry he got me. it was from , where Haitians are making jewelry from cereal boxes. Even better is that a friend of mine in Corpus has been collecting these boxes so we have been a part of contributing to this cause. Mine were made by a young 15 year old boy, who lost his father in the earthquake, who is trying to learn a trade to help take care of him and his mother! Knowing that we are contributing to this great cause was an even better part then the present itself :) Good job babe!
So this year was Mia's turn for Valentine's and all I get is instructions to write a love note and to dress nice and be ready by 8. So I write my note(on a handmade card) and bust out the slacks and dress shoes and get ready for dinner. She asks me for my menu choice and then banishes me to the bedroom until she has everything ready. So finally she lets me out and I find the dining room decked to the nines! She's really gone all out and everything looks amazing. There's alot out on the table, dinner looks wonderful and there's some interesting things on the table that I don't recognize. We sit down to dinner with some quiet country music in the background. Dinner is amazing and we relive some old valentine's memories and go through some old lists we've made of things about us and where we were in life at that time. We finish our meal and now it's time for the love notes. Mia's is incredible. It's handmade and has little notes in envelopes all over it. The notes are very moving, she almost cries a couple times and so do I. My note isn't as extravagant or touching but I tried! We finish off dinner with some felt fortune cookie game that Mia made. Basically you write to the other person something that you'll do for them and then drop it in the fortune cookie. We've got 6 each to open. Opening them was alot of fun, we went back and forth opening them. I'm not gonna lie, I got some pretty good fortunes to cash in on! we talk about how this turned out to be possibly one of the best Valentine's ever and with that we called it a night.
I kinda scoured the Internet for interesting, cheap and inventive Valentine's Ideas to make it special at home and came up with a few things that I have been planning. I took to all my craft supplies to make an interesting, semi creative love letter and actually had alot of fun with it. I also make valentine felt fortune cookies for each of us to write notes in during our dinner.
So yesterday afternoon I let JT know that we were getting take out from one of our favorite restaurants, Bistro de Asia, to pick out his favorite and write it down for me. I picked out a dress that he bought me YEARS ago from a friend of mine, set out all the accessories in a separate bathroom, so that we could get ready separately. I placed and picked up our order while JT bathed Jocelyn and put her to bed. I got out our nice dishes, served up the food (made it look less like take out), got some candles, wine glasses, flower and some other accessories to personalize the table. Oh and I found this questionnaire that JT and I took 4 years ago about what we wanted for dates and in our love life with our spouse, it was a nice little personalized touch from the past!
So all that was set up and ready to go, I got dressed and met Jonathan in the dining room, and boy did that man LOOK GOOD :) Okay I'm bias but he really did look great! So we sat down enjoyed our dinner, while talking about this questionnaire and what has changed in our opinions on dates over the past 4 years which was alot of fun! Then we started talking about our past valentines and pieced together all the things that we could remember from them ... and learn from them, LOL. Then we read our love letters.... I wanted to be able to read mine to him but I knew that I wouldn't make it through it, so I had him read it but there were some that he couldn't make it through either :) It was a really special time to read what we each though of each other and how much we loved each other.
Then came the homemade felt fortune cookies... we each had 6 and I supplied paper and pens and we had to put 6 things down and stuff them in our fortune cookie for the other to read! This was by far MY FAVORITE part of valentines. He did such a wonderful job writing down meaning things that he could do for me, such as teaching me how to cast a line (fishing), host a girls night at our house for me, etc etc And even though this was on the fly and he didn't have much time to think of things, he really knew what it was that would make my heart melt!
So Valentines Day this year was a huge hit and we had alot of fun. Oh and the best part (there were alot of good parts) was the jewelry he got me. it was from , where Haitians are making jewelry from cereal boxes. Even better is that a friend of mine in Corpus has been collecting these boxes so we have been a part of contributing to this cause. Mine were made by a young 15 year old boy, who lost his father in the earthquake, who is trying to learn a trade to help take care of him and his mother! Knowing that we are contributing to this great cause was an even better part then the present itself :) Good job babe!
So this year was Mia's turn for Valentine's and all I get is instructions to write a love note and to dress nice and be ready by 8. So I write my note(on a handmade card) and bust out the slacks and dress shoes and get ready for dinner. She asks me for my menu choice and then banishes me to the bedroom until she has everything ready. So finally she lets me out and I find the dining room decked to the nines! She's really gone all out and everything looks amazing. There's alot out on the table, dinner looks wonderful and there's some interesting things on the table that I don't recognize. We sit down to dinner with some quiet country music in the background. Dinner is amazing and we relive some old valentine's memories and go through some old lists we've made of things about us and where we were in life at that time. We finish our meal and now it's time for the love notes. Mia's is incredible. It's handmade and has little notes in envelopes all over it. The notes are very moving, she almost cries a couple times and so do I. My note isn't as extravagant or touching but I tried! We finish off dinner with some felt fortune cookie game that Mia made. Basically you write to the other person something that you'll do for them and then drop it in the fortune cookie. We've got 6 each to open. Opening them was alot of fun, we went back and forth opening them. I'm not gonna lie, I got some pretty good fortunes to cash in on! we talk about how this turned out to be possibly one of the best Valentine's ever and with that we called it a night.
2 comments:
I love the fortune cookie idea. You are so creative, Mia!
im loving it!!
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