The night before Valentine’s I turned to Jan and broke the bad news to him,

“I got nothing – no plans, no presents, no energy, no nothing. Sorry. No Valentine’s celebrations for us this year.”

This was not bad news for him. It was great news,

“Oh, good! I got nothing too.”

So that was that.

UNTIL

I woke up at 4:00 AM (hello, Insomnia, how nice to you to visit me every. stinking. night!)

I figured I might as well do something other than toss and turn OR read a Georgette Heyer novel.

So I got my weary bones out of bed and scraped together a Valentine’s breakfast for our little crew.

(Yes, the waffles are heart shaped…suckaz!)

It was the right thing to do.

The girls were so happy.

It felt so right to express our love to one another and celebrate together.

I usually get a little present and balloons for the girls, but this year I just wrote them each a love note, and even managed to find a card I’d bought last year for Jan but never gave him. It felt totally blessed the way everything came together.

Translation on for the Valentine Millie wrote to Clara: ” When you are sweet, you are great.” (Which about says it all!)

My Valentine sent me back to bed and did all the dishes. THAT is what I am talking about, people!

Later in the day we carried on with the Valentine theme by painting our nails red,

and after their baths I gave the girls the special “Valentine treatment”. We always put lotion on after the bath – but this time they got to pick from my collection of Anthro lotions (step aside boring, old Eucerin) and I basically applied the lotion to look like a heart, which they then smeared all over themselves.

Of course I dressed the girls in Valentine’s colors. I may have NO spunk these days but I am STILL ME!

And that was that.

Out of nothing – thin air practically – we scraped together a Valentine’s celebration.

Did I mention I never sleep, am six months pregnant and am perpetually crusty, cranky and NO FUN.

Just saying, miracles do happen!