Valentines Day equals Two Timing and Mompetition

Well if you are opening this looking for some sort of tawdry post, you might be disappointed.  But if you know my twins you will probably think this is funny.

Thursday was Valentines and so I thought this would be interesting being that this was the first Valentines the twins have had being in school.  Callum has always been a ladies guy flirting with his speech therapist, Miss Amanda since he wasn't even a year old.  So the day before him and I went out and I had to ask: do you like a girl this year to be your "sweet baboo"?  He told me he actually has two girls that he likes.  One in his gym class and one in his school.  He isn't even 4 and he is trying to pick up several girls in each place.

Rachel is not much better.  I went too Parent/Teacher conferences for her DDPre program and I asked her teacher how she was doing.  I was worried about her not having enough friends and stuff.  Well not to worry, her peers adore, especially two little boys. One waits on her hand and foot carrying her stuff to the bus, cleaning up for her, etc.  Another one got her an ultra-fabulous special Valentines gift.  I didn't get anything nearly that nice.

I think it is funny these two know how to play the system that well.  I suspect it is because they have had to deal with the opposite sex since they were in the womb.  With that said I'm glad Harmon is more like me, awkward and way too busy having fun to even notice there was a holiday!

In general it has been a rough couple of weeks for all of us but having this holiday (of all holidays) last week made it challenging.  The worse part was the 80 valentines I had to put together the night before.  That was not fun.  The kids go to this old "school room" setting school and so while there are a limited amount of kids in each class the school asks us to get one for each child in the grade level.  So that meant a little over 60 valentines alone.  Than Rachel's DDPre class was an additional 9 kids.  Add in a few teachers, an SLP, and an OT that meant 80 valentines.

That is why I am always amazed by the mom's who custom do everything and enough money for a new Coach bag on this holiday.  We got so many interesting Valentines.  There were hand made centipedes with chocolate kisses in them, candy boxes, teddy bears in cups, slap bracelets, etc.  All with these cute notes.  I barely finished putting the kids name on each.  What happened to the old days when we used to go to school, put our name on a heart, and insert them in each other's "mail boxes"?