You color my world.

I want to preface this post in my defense that I already planned to bring Valentines to Moses’ school TODAY before I realized I’m a failure mother. Davy and I take turns taking Moses to school and with my new work hours Davy always picks him up. Normally this works out great except when there are special events going on that need signing up for. I learned my lesson by getting stuck with the only thing left on the sign up, goody bags, for his Halloween party. I scolded Davy like any psycho first time mom would that I never want to be stuck with a crappy sign up again. For the Christmas party I made sure to be the first mom to sign up and then Davy caught on and made sure to sign up for cookies this time around.

Friday rolls around and I make sure to bring in those yummy super sugary iced cookies from the bakery and think nothing of it. Well after school Davy informs me that we were also supposed to bring in their Valentines because I guess any experienced on top of it school  mom would know you pass those out during the PARTY not the actual day. FAIL. I turned into to psycho mom couldn’t believe that all the kids knew this information but US and now Moses seemed like the only kid who didn’t bring his friends anything. If you’re not a mom and you’re reading this you probably think I’m crazy. Actually sometimes I even think I’m crazy but there is something about proving myself to all the other moms that I’m not a failure and I can be on top of the classroom etiquette that made my blood boil when I heard this.

At first I thought I failed but then I realized better late than never, right? I might as well carry on with my original plan and give the kids one more extra treat on the actual….real….supposed to be the day to celebrate Valentine’s day February 14th not the 11th….duh!!!!!!

So with all my psycho babble behind us here is what Mo brought to school this morning:

This is the only picture I managed to take which shows the "girly" hearts cooling on a nasty baking sheet! #momoftheyear

They are homemade heart shaped crayons! I found silicone heart shaped ice cube trays in the dollar bin at Target and picked up a 64 count pack of crayons. I used a knife to cut off all the wrappers then broke them up into color categories. I used a muffin tin to separate the blues, pinks, oranges, ect. which made filling the ice cube trays extremely easy. I used girly colors for the girls and boy colors for the boys. I had to do something with all the boo boo browns so I mixed them with bright blues to make them gift worthy. After filling the trays I put them in the oven for 10 minutes until all the wax had melted and let them cool before removing them. I was so happy how they turned out! I loaded cute striped bags with a pack of gummies and three heart crayons tied with a Valentine that said “You color my world”!

 

Because today is all about telling the ones we love just how much we love them….and acting like a crazy mom of a 2 year old who really has no idea what today is, right?