We had a nice but simple Valentine’s Day celebration. This year the Lunar New Year also fell on February 14th, so this year we combined both celebrations into one. Before I went to bed Saturday night, I decorated our kitchen table with a red table cloth. I put out placemats from the local Chinese restaurant, along with Valentine plates and napkins. I used a dish full of conversation hearts with a red votive candle holder on either side. I sprinkled some of those metallic hearts on the table. I taped some gold hearts between the placemats as well.
I also hung lanterns that I saved from Justin’s first birthday at the windows and from our ceiling fan.
At each place setting I put a felt fortune cookie that I made from red and purple felt along with a fortune I wrote for each of them. These were a big hit and so easy to make.
The boys each received a butterfly valentine. I found these on the internet last year and I cannot remember where I found them.
Happy boys!
Reading their fortunes
What did we have for breakfast? Well that was one area that mommy neglected. I was very low on groceries and so the boys had leftovers from yesterday and Larry and I had toast. It was made special by the decorated table!
We read several Valentine stories and went out for Chinese food. For dessert we had cherry jello in heart shaped dishes.
How was your Valentine’s Day?
4 comments:
What fun! Loved the cute felt fortune cookies! Was that your pattern. Looks like you did a wonderful job in making special memories. I'm sure your boys will remember this (and look forward to it again for next year!).
Blessings
Leslie
You always make holidays and special occasions so fun!
Hmmm...our Valentine's Day...we went to church, my parents came over for lunch and we had home made Italian subs and then went out for a shopping trip to Target (the kids have Christmas money left). Not terribly exciting and I'm thinking our Filipino children probably didn't even realize it was Valentine's Day! :-p
I love it! The decorations make it so special! What a great idea!
Looks like you really did it up big for your family, we did a little but I didn't get to do very much this year. I love the fortune cookies, very cool!!!
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