With Valentines Day just 3 sleeps away and being without a 'significant other' , in my house any effort toward romantic gestures is diverted to showing even more love to my girls.
From my time as a nanny in America, I truly absorbed some of their (what us British may call) 'over-enthusiasm' towards 'Holiday Celebrations' I LOVED Christmas over there, Hanukkah, Halloween, Easter, Thanksgiving - I even introduced my host family to a very English 'Bonfire Night!'
In all of these celebrations, the most touching was their way of expressing 'love' on Valentines Day. In the USA Valentines Day is NOT just a romantic day to share with boyfriends / husbands etc, but to show affection to 'everyone' who they are close to - friends, family and most lovely of all, children.
I fondly remember crafting with my charges Taline and Christopher, making 'treats' to take into school to hand out to their friends on Valentines day. While at Convention back in November we were introduced to the 'Whole Lot Of Love' promotion and I immediately thought back and knew i could re-live those memories with my girls… I just needed the help of these guys…
My girls had great fun putting them together. They made Shortbread Biscuits in Heart shapes with Granny and we got some Strawberry heart shaped fruit snacks from the supermarket. We used small cello bags to wrap the biscuit and Strawberry treat, then 'wrapped' the monster arms around them to give them hugs!…
Here is Poppy with 2 of the finished articles - we made 54 in total!!
(all the other photos I took were terrible - very dark and blurred - bad lighting in our dining room)
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