Mad Libbing

It's been documented before, but I'll recap for posterity's sake that in our family we celebrate the 5 Days of Valentine.  A few years after we were married, I decided that one day just wasn't sufficient to celebrate this thing called love and decided to tack on a few more.  Even though we "celebrate" for 5 days instead of just one, I really haven't done much in the past couple of years to make things extra festive or fun.  This year however, I'm discovering how helpful it is to be able to delegate things over to the children now that they're all getting older.  By assigning each day to one child, I have officially freed myself up from having to do too much of anything and they get to have the fun of planning.  {Although I should mention that  2 out of the 3 children so far have not really done anything for their day anyway.}
Sunday was the first day of Valentine and Ethan was in charge.  We ended up making sugar cookies and Ethan helped me to fill them all in with icing, and that was about it.  Today was supposed to be Sophie's day, but since she was home "sick" from school and Jane was up almost all of last night with an asthma flare-up, I was not about to run to the store during the day with the 3 little ones for the construction paper to make Valentines like Sophie really wanted us to do.   

Yesterday, however, was Grace's day and she really got a kick out of her planned activity.  While at Barnes & Noble on Saturday, I saw a Valentine-y version of Mad Libs and went ahead and bought it thinking it would be fun to do at some point during our 5 days of celebrating.  Since Grace was in charge of the activity for Family Home Evening last night, I suggested she use the Mad Libs and then introduced her to the joys of Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs.  To say that it was a hit would be an understatement.  Hahahaha.  Both she and Ethan got the biggest kick out doing them -- and I was surprised to see that even Sophie caught on pretty quickly to all the different parts of speech.  In addition to completing the Mad Libs in the traditional way, Ethan and Grace took to filling them out in a very personalized manner as well.  The results were kind of hilarious.  I've lost count of how many "love notes" I've received from them at this point and I had to laugh out loud when I went upstairs last night and saw a note that Grace had carefully placed on Scott's pillow at some point during the day.  Hahahaha.

 

 {Even funnier than the actual note is how funny Grace THOUGHT it was.}

So there you have it folks,  the true story behind the day that Scott and I met.  Hahahahahaha.  Happy 3rd Day of Valentine!