Fast forward several years. I am now the grandmother of four wonderful grandchildren. My memory of what I did for our son sparked an idea of something that I could do for our grandchildren — send them a digital Valentine’s Day greeting.

I had my dear husband take pictures of me and my little Valentine’s Day greeting.

Here are the pictures. (Don’t mind that the background lighting is different in the pictures. And don’t mind that my bangs are in a funky V-shape.  I should have fixed all that in Photoshop . . .)

So here are various ways that you could send a digital Valentine’s Day greeting to your grandchildren:

• Take pictures like I did and e-mail them to your grandchildren.
• Take every other picture of grandpa holding a Valentine’s Day sign (so there would be two pictures of you and two of grandpa) and e-mail the pics to the grandkiddos.
• Take one picture with both you and grandpa in the picture and e-mail it.
• Take just one picture with your Valentine’s Day greeting to your grandchild and e-mail.
• If you have a blog, post the picture/pictures on your blog and tell your grandchildren to read your blog.
• Print the pictures on paper and snail mail the pics to the grands.
• Insert the picture/pictures in a letter, print the letter, and snail mail it off.

Wanna see a blooper?  After my husband took the first picture, I reviewed it and deemed that he needed to take it again. So he did.  Here’s the second picture.  Notice anything different?

Oops!

This got me thinking. For older grandchildren, why not hold your message upside down? That would make it playful and fun. You might want to have your husband take your picture in the mirror. Then, your grandchild would have to hold the picture up to the mirror to read your message.

I thought that I would help you out a bit and make it easy for you to do this activity.  Here’s a PDF file with three Valentine greetings already created for you.  They all say the same thing but use three different types of fonts. All you have to do is print it up and use it for your little photo shoot.

Here’s a PDF file with Valentine clip art that you can print up and use for your own personal message. Here’s a PDF file with graphics that say Be Mine and a page with a Valentine border.

I hope you have fun creating your digital Valentine’s Day greeting for your grandchildren!

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When my children were growing up, my state-of-Valentine’s-Day-unawareness started with Halloween, ramped up at Thanksgiving, and kicked into a frenzy because of Christmas. Just a mere two weeks after Christmas, I had to put on a birthday extravaganza for our youngest son and then in a couple of weeks do a birthday bash for our daughter. And Valentine’s Day was 5 short days after her birthday.

So what’s your excuse now, bucko? Your kids are grown and married and you don’t throw them birthday parties anymore?

Hush yo’ mouth!

I decided this year that I would be ready for Valentine’s Day much sooner than 5 days before.  So, here it is — 20 whopping days before!  Aren’t you impressed? I thought you would be.

Two things.  As I was going through old V-Day posts, I realized that I didn’t post the Valentine’s Day bingo sheets under my free resources.  I made them three years ago — and had good intentions of putting them on my resource page.  Somehow, they didn’t arrive there.  Shame, shame, shame on me.  I’ve repented and have put it there now.  Or, you can get the Valentine’s Day Bingo here.

Second, since I have lots of new readers, I want to make sure they see this idea that Gramma Kathy had for Valentine’s Day mailboxes for her grandchildren. If you want to do something similar, you need to be looking for the items NOW! And that is the reason that I tried so hard this year to think about Valentine’s Day before February 10th.

Do any of you have fun Valentine’s Day activities you have done with your grandchildren? Please feel free to comment and share your ideas.

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Now, imagine.  This isn’t a mere national celebration.  This is big. Real Big. World-wide Big.

Wowzers.

This made me reminisce about the first time that my husband and I were in Tahiti. Our favorite lunch was getting a long, skinny baguette, a can o’ pop, and a jar of Nutella.  We’d smear a thick swath of Nutella on a slice of bread. It would stick to our teeth in thick gobs.  We’d wash it off with a swig of pop. Not a very nutritional meal but it made my taste buds kick up their heels in delight.

When I learned that February 5 was World Nutella Day, I immediately imagined celebrating it with grandchildren.  Nutella over waffles for breakfast. Yum. Nutella sandwiches for lunch. Nutella spread on apple slices for an afternoon snack. Nutella straight-from-the-jar for supper. It would be a wonderful time. I’d be my grandchildren’s favorite grandmother. (At least for the moment. . .)

I happened upon the World Nutella Day web site — and the l-o-n-g page of recipes.  Oh my! They had Nutella recipes for breakfast: pancakes, French toast, muffins, monkey breads, tarts, and cinnamon rolls.

They had 43 recipes alone for brownies. Holy cow!

They had recipes for truffles, candy, fudge, cheesecake, biscotti, macaroons, Crème Brulée, bar cookies, cakes, frosting, cocktails, coffee, ice cream, gelato, mousse, pudding, and semifreddo, panna cotta, and tiramisu. There were recipes for pastries, pies doughnuts, sweet breads, crepes, and bread. I scrolled down and down and down the page.

You can see their Nutella recipes here.

Four recipes caught my eye: Nutella Cheesecake, Nutella Brownies, Chocolate Nutella Cookies, and Nutella Hot Chocolate.

There’s only 12 more days until World Nutella Day.  Make sure you stock up on plenty of Nutella. Then, invite a grandchild over for a time of decadence and make one of the bazillion recipes from their site.  And, let me know how it turns out. Seriously. I’m way interested to know which of the Nutella recipes are good.

It is snowing as I write this. I want to make some Nutella Hot Chocolate. There isn’t one ounce of Nutella in the house. Do I dash out in what is becoming one of the season’s major snowstorms? In the dark? On slick roads?

What do you think I should do?

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The author, Ric Dilz, contacted me with a special offer that I can share with you, Dear Readers.  You can get a FREE ePub or PDF copy of the book. Woo hoo!

All you have to do is ‘like’ their Facebook page.  It’s that simple.

If that link won’t work for you, go to their website, Jibber Jabbers Books. Click on their Facebook link on the right-hand side of their page. After you like their page, you will see a link at the top where you can download your free ePub or PDF copy of the book. Sweet.

(While you are on the Jibber Jabbers page, check out their toddler t-shirts. Way fun.  I love the one that says “Don’t make me call grandma” and “Be afraid. Be very afraid.”)

This is a wonderful gift from Ric!  Thank you, thank you, thank you.

If you get the ePub version, you can read it on a Nook, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, the Sony Reader, Android, and Blackberry phones. If you select the PDF file, you can read it on those devices in addition to computers.

Well, pardon me.  I’m off to download the ePub version and install it on our iPad.

Toot-a-loo!

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