Puppy Valentines
Apparently, waiting until the night before the valentine's day party at the daycare was too late to pick up cards at our local Kroger. I, with Emily in tow, spent the better part of a half hour wandering around the store, looking for appropriate valentine's day cards that she could take to her class party (yes, she is young, but the daycare requested it). During the half hour of searching, I came up with two (yes, two) options: one of the four remaining Hannah Montana boxes of cards for $2.99 or two of the disney princesses boxes of cards for a whopping $5.99 each! Ok, so, decisions, decisions. I refused to buy the Hannah Montana cards on general principles. I do not believe that Hannah Montana is appropriate for an elementary school kid, much less for my toddler, to give out. However, my frugalness was not going to let me spend $11.98 to get enough cards for Emily to give out to her fifteen classmates.
So, I did what any good husband would do. I called my wife to tell her the situation and let her know I was going to be later than I though because I had to go somewhere else to find the cards. Ashley, loving wife that she is, did not want me to have to go elsewhere so she told me just to pick up some construction paper and glitter and she would make some valentine's day cards. "What a wonderful idea," I thought. "It will be easy, cut four pieces of construction paper into fourths, draw a heart on them with glitter, scrawl Emily's name on the back with a cute saying, and voila!"
Of course, it could not be that simple. It took Ashley three hours (I did help with a lot of the cutting), but I think that the result turned out very cute. She even made an extra one so that we have one to keep!