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Making Valentine’s Day Memories and a Giveaway

Guess what this post is about?  Making Valentine’s Day Memories and a Giveaway!

I love you no matter what

Let me tell you about two of my favorite Valentine’s Day Memories growing up.

  • My Mom made helped me make the BEST Valentine’s Day card box ever for a school contest.   I wish I had a picture. Her idea was a computer.  It had two boxes wrapped in white paper – one for the screen and one for the keyboard.  For the keyboard it had sweetheart candy’s for the keys.  I won 1st place in the Most Creative Category.  Isn’t it funny – I still love computers?
  • My Dad would always (I’m sure he missed a few) give me the sweetest Valentine’s Day cards and cute gifts.  They would always be the Hallmark brand.  That was the point.  Anything else wouldn’t do…he would say.

Do you have a special memory?

 

Being a Tommy Mommy has it’s perks! One of them is being honored to giveaway some cool books!  One of iLoveMy5Kids‘ Readers will win an entire Valentine’s Library for someone special child in their life.  Don’t worry – everyone can be a child at heart.

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These are the books included:

So do you want to win?

Just leave a comment telling me your BEST Valentine Memory or one you made with your kids!
It doesn’t even have to be from a spouse.  My two favorite memories are from my parents.

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I’m so thankful for anyone who reads this blog and is encouraged to make memories with their children!  Seriously, it just knocks my socks off!   And while I’m at it…I LOVE COMMENTS!  They are like chocolate without the calories!
So – leave one pretty please…I’m on a diet – I NEED chocolate!

P.S.

Even if someone doesn’t want to enter (or just simply isn’t the winner), everyone still can benefit from the 30% off discount code. By visiting www.thomasnelson.com/love and using promo code LOVE, (don’t you just LOVE the code) you can receive 30% off your purchase or pre-order of these wonderful kids titles (code expires 2/15/13).

Winners must live in the United States. Sorry, for you overseas peeps.  Make sure I have an email to reach you or you could be forfeiting your awesome prize.  Winner will be chosen on 2/11/13 by The Winner Is App.

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Comments

  1. My favorite Valentine memory was when my oldest brought home a tile he made in school with his hand/foot print. It was my first Valentine as a mom and meant the world to me.

  2. My favorite Valentine’s Day memory was the first year we were married when my husband surprised me by having a limo pick me up from work and take me to a hotel. The room was gorgeous and he had shrimp cocktail chilling along with strawberries and champagne.

  3. My gave Valentine memory is probably my first Valentine’s Day with Emmett. He snuck into my dorm room and left lots of cards and roses and a teddy bear. It was a big surprise and very sweet.

  4. my favorite memory is when the girls where in public school Mia in kinder and Maya in 1st grade, me and my husband decided to take them a balloon and a little stuffed puppy to school, when they saw the gift, oh my their little faces where glowing I still can see them like it was yesterday, it was an inexpensive little thing but it sure made the day, they still talk about it and have the stuffed puppy!

  5. My favorite memory is my mom helping me make a valentine’s “mailbox” (out of a shoe box) for school valentine’s day parties. How I loved to wrap it in shiny silver foil and decorate it with pink and red hearts. One year we even put a “flag” on the side that moved up and down. I thought it was awesome!!! I wish they still did that at school so I could share it with my kids!

  6. My favorite Valentine’s Day memory would be waking up my 1st Valentine’s morning as a Mommy and seeing my new born daughter lying on the bed with a card and big plush heart next to her. (melt!)

  7. My hubby never gets me jewelry and then one Valentines day he gave me an anniversary ring!!
    tsazspoll at hotmail dot com

  8. Last year my son and I went to a hoedown! We square danced the night away! It was so much fun!

  10. My favorite memory is that my dad always had a box of chocolates and a rose for each of us kids every year

  11. Hi Friend:)
    My favorite memory I am making with my kids is a Valentine’s Day Dinner and scavenger hunt. We start with a fun dinner full of heart shaped food items and dessert. After dinner the kiddos get clues and have fun finding all the little “I love you” gifts that are hidden in the house. I am already getting ready for this year’s festivities:)
    Michelle

  12. Don’t know what happened to my last comment…it disappeared. Anyway, my favorite Valentine’s memories are the ones created while preparing Valentine’s with my kids for school. Probably don’t have too many more years of doing that with my oldest, though. I’ll always treasure the time we had doing it when he was little :).

  13. My favorite Valentines’ memories are the ones I have of helping my children prepare Valentines for school. It’s so much fun to be able to sit down together and do this year after year. Unfortunately, It probably won’t be too many more years for my oldest. I treasure the time I had when he was little though :).

  15. My dad always made sure I felt special and loved on Valentine’s Day, and he carried that over to his grandchildren while he was still on this earth with us. I will never forget after my parent’s divorce when I was in high school. He knew there was a dress from Gap that I was in love with. I came home from school with him waiting in the front yard with the dress. I will never forget that as long as I live…truly one of the many special moments I shared with him

  16. My favorite Valentine’s memories are the valentines we exchanged in elementary school and the parties we had there.

  17. My first daughter was born less than a week before valentines day so for that year my husband bought me chocolate to keep next to the rocker for a middle of the night nursing treat and a new cd player for the nursery so I could listen to music while I nursed & rocked the baby.

  18. My mom always had a vday gift as a surprise sitting on the table for us on vday. And there were six of us!!
    I try to do that with my kids now, to let them know they are my valentine!

  19. My favorite Valentine memory was when I was in fourth grade. I almost never missed school. But that year I had the mumps so I was going to miss the school party. My decorated valentine box was at school in the classroom but I couldn’t be there to get my valentines. My parents got me a huge (two feet tall) valentine, sent it to school with a neighbor girl, and then had her bring my valentine box to the house after school. It took away my sadness for missing the party.

    I love reading your blog.
    Phytz

  20. My favorite memories is the excitement of my children on making cards for daddy, mommy and grandparents! Thanks for the chance 🙂

  21. I think I would have to say when my husband first met, he had roses, balloons, and teddy bear sent to my work. So sweet.

  22. My favorite Valentine memory was made in Feb 2010. We had just moved to Lomita, Ca the month before and we didn’t know anyone. I baked some heart shaped cookies, bought some sprinkles and frosting. I set everything up in small containers and invited the neighbor’s children over. All the kids had a great time decorating their heart shaped cookies. My kids were soooo excited, not only because they had done something fun but also because they got to make new friends. For dinner, we made heart shaped pizzas and my kids were excited to tell Papa all about their fun day when he got home from work.

  23. My fave valentine’s memory is the one where my single parent friends all got together and had a special “we’re single and fabulous” party.

  26. My best valentines gift was from my now husband when we were dating. He made me a homemade necklace.

  27. As a Child I did not have many memories of Valentines. My mom was a single mom to 4 and there were much more important things to take care of. But now that I’m a SAHM to 4 (Blessings from The Good Lord), I love making memories for them. I usually get them each a treat and put it on their pillow ( I close my eyes to the mess that is their room) so when they sit on their beds…Surprize!! I also make them their favorite strawberry cake with sprinkles.

  28. My best Valentine memory is getting flowers from my dad on Valentine’s Day at school when I was a senior. Made me feel very special to have such a wonderfully thoughtful Dad 🙂

  29. My best Valentines memory is the first V day when I was dating my husband and he gave me a gold ring. It was very special to me as it was the first piece of jewelry he gave me.

  30. One year I got an anonymous Valentine’s card in the mail. Looking back, I’m certain my parents sent it, but it was such an amazingly exciting thing for a preteen girl to imagine who might be pining for me 😉

  31. My favorite memories as a kid were waking up to Valentine gifts from my parents. She would put them on the counter where we ate breakfast! 😉

  32. My favorite Valentine memory is creating a cardboard mailbox with my mom to take to school! It was always so cute and I loved getting to spend time with her making something!

  33. I love all of my childhood Valentine memories. I remember Mom sitting at the table and we would make out the Valentine’s together. Memories of being together are the best ones!

  34. My favorite Valentine’s Day memory was the year that I bought both of my boys dart guns. They would say “Love you” and then follow it up with a dart!

  35. My favorite memory is from when I was a little girl. Every year, my dad would pick my sister and I up from school early and we would go Valentine’s shopping for my mom. I loved spending that time with him.

  36. My favorite memory of Valentines day is when I was 7. My brother and I
    Just got home from school and off the bus. Well in our driveway there was candy conversation
    Hearts in a row and a sign that said follow. So my brother and I fooled them into the house.
    There was two lines when we got in the house. One line was mine and the other was my brothers.
    Each line lead us to different things but eventually ended in both our bedrooms.
    At the end was a big chocolate heart and a homemade valentine from our parents. It was
    The coolest Valentine’s day ever. We both still have our homemade cards and that was almost
    25 years ago!

  37. One would be how my Dad always made sure my mom and I had a heart filled with chocolates. And the other is how my two year old told me I wasn’t his valentine I’m his girlfriend. He melts my heart.

  38. Making Home made Jesus Loves You hearts with the kids….they wer’nt ashamed to take them to school either…and the teachers didn’t make a “fuss”…..They spent all day on them, and taped a piece of gum on each one.

  39. My favorite Valentine memories are with my children and hubby. Last year, I began doing a Valentine countdown. For the first fourteen days of February I give them a small gift/treat/card in their decorated mailbox. They get so excited each morning to check their mailboxes :-).

  40. My favorite Valentine memory is when I was a child. My parents, for some reason, decided to do separate Valentine gifts for each of us kids. It was the only time I ever got gifts that were just from my father without the influence of my mom. Those things he gave me were so special to me. It makes me feel loved still just thinking about it. Lisa~

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