Show Me Your Love

This year Valentine's Day fell on a Saturday, which also happens to be our house-cleaning day.  The kids were not particularly excited about the prospect of chores, and to be honest, neither was I.  To get us moving I decided to set a time limit of 90 minutes . . . and then we could play the rest of the day!

My cute Spencer got right to work on his dusting job, his bathroom job, and vacuuming his bedroom, and because he has weekly practice, he finished rather quickly.  Next thing I knew, he was working along-side me, asking, "What can I do next?"  He continued to do that until all my tasks were completed.

Spencer has a very understanding heart and has always been good at showing me his love.  Hope you had a great Valentine's Day, too!   

Sweetest Valentine

This is the Valentine I received from my little girl just before the big LOVE Day.  She was so excited for me to see this Valentine that she had left on my pillow, but I was in the middle of making dinner.  She anxiously asked a few times, "Will you go see what is on your pillow?"  until I had a chance to find her precious message of love.  What a sweet sentiment from my little sweetheart.

In case Kate's message is unclear to you, it reads:

To:  Mom.

I Love you.  I Love you because you make dinner.I can't say all the things, but I Love a lot.  All my Love on you.

From your Kate! 

Nate the Great

Nathan, my preschooler, was part of a sweet "Singing Valentine" program at a retirement center the other day.  At the end of the musical part, the children wandered the room to give valentine gifts to the older members of the audience.

On the way home we talked about how nice it is to show others that we care for them even when they are strangers.

My comment: "Even if we don't know them we still love and care for them because we know they are Children of God."

Nathan's response:   "Ummm, you mean Grown-Ups of God."

My response:   Smile.

How could you not love this face

. . . and the cute personality that comes with it?!