Three Things + 1 : Lots of Love (and giveaways)

I love to make cards for my friends and family. My husband and I find some time together, be it an evening at home or dinner out. Just to take a moment and reconnect. I also like to make cookies with my son.

everything looks so fun! for valentines day, we have a meal, lunch or dinner depending on the day, where everything is red/pink and/or heart shaped. i even tinted their milk redish pinkish. i may do strawberry milk this year. it is fun to do and the kids 'eat it up', literally! :)

I usually try to do something memorable for my 2 girls...my husband isn't really into it but I try to do something special for him too...cook something extra nice, etc. He does love eating (at home)! :) Thanks for the chance at so many wonderful giveaways! WOW!!

I am excited about starting traditions with my kiddos. I haven't decided what to do yet, and hoping the blog world will give me good ideas... but he is old enough now to remember and I want to start something special.
Thanks for the giveaway!

Valentines Day is just so sweet - I love it! I have a little basket of treats for each of my kids ready when they wake up. And everything we can turn into hearts that day, is - peanut butter sandwiches, ice cubes, etc. Such a happy day!

For whatever reason, V Day is like the beginning of spring for me and my hubby. Hopefully, daffodils and spring bulbs are poking out of the ground and the days are getting a bit longer. I have 3 kids and for the last couple of years we have the obnoxious purple, hairy monkey holding a heart, it shakes and makes funny noise. So, the Valentine monkey is always part of our holiday tradition of our sweet and simple Valentine celebration of each other. For us Valentine's Day is kinda like a 'spring' version of Thanksgiving. We are thankful for each other and share small personal tokens with each other.

We celebrate with lots of handmade goodness, from cards to cookies :)

My daughters and I will create a Valentine Collage of all the things they do with Daddy since last Valentine.

My husband and I don't really do anything to celebrate the day, but the tradition that has become favorite is handmaking all of our Valentines. The kids get to help with the ones for their classes and then I make each one a special card of their own (and hubby too, lol)

...Valentins day is not celebrated that much here in Germany, and since we all celebrate our birthdays in February anyway its a celebration month for us with lots of things going on, but I might make a heart shaped cake for my hubby again this year...;-)

I don't know how I will celebrate Valentines Day this year. I have not been looking forward to it as my friends son passed away on Valentines Day last year. I know it will be a hard day, but I think I will focus on celebrating life, love and relationships. Thanks for always inspiring me Ali, not only in the area of creativity, but to truly stop and cherish the important things in life.
Blessings.
Stacy

We celebrate as a family with heart-shaped pancakes for breakfast, and usually a heart-shaped pizza for dinner.

My husband and I have never been big fans of Valentine's Day, so years ago we decided to celebrate it a little differently. Every year, we go out for burgers and my husband gets to pick any movie he wants. And I do not complain. Even the year he chose "Daredevil" and it was quite terrible. That is my gift to him.

I think I am comment number 1179 according to the counter on my computer... that is amazing! I make cards for both on my (adult) children and they still save them. Plus I buy them a favourite treat. My daughter spilled coffee on her card from last year and she asked me to make her another one to replace it with a new one. tooo funny.

i decorate the kitchen with crepe paper and hanging hearts and have fun little gift bags for my 3 kids and dh too. then i make a fancy dinner that night. usualy lobster if its on sale, shrimp and steak otherwise. then a yummy heart cake for dessert

Valentines day is always a fun love filled holiday. Heart shaped cut out cookies, handmade cards and boxes of chocolate, usually a fancy dessert and sometimes take out Chinese! Just a very fun holiday.

Valentine's is just 6 days before our anniversary so we celebrate big---lots of love. Every year we try to surprise each other with something different-last year (our 15th ) I made him an album of fifteen things I loved about him. He loved it!

From homemade heart pancakes in the a.m. to homemade cards fro classmates to homemade frosted heart cookies for dessert at our candlelight dinner, we do it up big. Being a teacher, I tend to be very thematic and look for any opportunity to get my kids involved. We LOVE crafting and baking for holidays together!

My husband is usually out of town for work, but I always get a little surprise of some sort, or we celebrate before he leaves. On the actual day I usually give the kids a treat from see's candies and take them out to dinner.

Valentine's Day was my father's favorite holiday, and we always got a nice gift from my parents--usually a new sweater or some article of clothing. After I grew up and left home, he continued to send me gifts: flowers, packages of specialty cookies. . . I've continued the tradition and make homemade Valentines for both of my adult children who now get a gift card inside the Valentine. My husband and I exchange cards and usually go out to dinner. This year we have tickets to see Jersey Boys instead.