Valentine’s Day Will Soon Be Upon Us
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Valentine’s Day always sneaks up on me and catches me unaware. But I have a good reason.
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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Thanks for the bingo sheets, we’ll play this when schools out today.
I send my grandchildren Valentines in the mail even though I am close enough to just give them to them. I think it’s always fun to get something in the mail. My parents always did that for my children. And my dad used to buy my sister, my mom and I traditional red boxes of candy. Sometimes the old standards can’t be beaten!
I do mailed Valentine’s to each of my grands too. Last year however we “Heart Attacked” our grands on Valentine’s day so that surprise was there for when they got home from school. We plastered their walls with all sizes and colors of hearts, personalized garlands, and some heart shaped goodies.
My grandchildren recently moved to Brazil and we skype all the time but I want some ideas for interactive things I can do like read books and do various games or sheets, like maybe this bingo idea mentioned above.
any good suggestions about where I can find stuff like that so our skyping is learning and fun and just not saying tell me about your day.
thanks,
Hi Elizabeth,
I wrote about some skyping activities you can do. You can read about it here: http://grandmaideas.com/skype-with-grandchildren
You didn’t mention the ages of your grandchildren so some of these ideas might not fit. But maybe they can give you an idea. If I come across any other idea, I’ll be sure to let you know.
Nina