The girls and I (and Mitch) took this show (a circus, really) on the road to spend four days at Nana and Grandpa's over the long weekend. It was an added bonus that we had company on Valentine's Day to detract from the everyday-plus-holiday void we feel because one member of our family (my Valentine, in particular) is long gone on deployment.
It worked, we had much more fun than had we been alone at home. It even started snowing shortly after we arrived and we woke up to two inches on the ground Saturday morning. But it quickly melted, so it didn't keep me from heading out to do some cruise-related shopping--alone! And the girls were happy decorating Valentine's cookies and doing a special art project with Nana.
When the structured activities were done, the girls pitched a tent in the living room. And while snacking on bananas, they regressed to their babyhood--Miranda in the high chair and Sydney in the doll crib, both of which were mine when I was their age. Who needs dolls? But if we did, fortunately we brought our own, because still, no one will touch the vintage Cabbage Patch doll. (Twenty-five years or so later, I don't know why I'm just now seeing how they could be considered creepy.)
Just when we thought we'd received enough love on Valentine's Day, we came home to a few more tokens of love that had arrived in the mail...a dozen red roses from Brian, a care package of Valentine spa treatments from Aunt Laura, and lollipop bouquets from Aunt Cindy and Uncle Bruce!
And that silly balloon, in case you were anxiously awaiting a status update, was still flying high and showing no signs of surrendering, even though it's lost a little puffiness. I should be so lucky during this deployment...
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