Did I tell you I am a failure as a mother signed Reichen and Latham up for a Valentine sticker exchange? I thought it would be so fun to peel stickers off my walls for my two toddlers, so when the local moms club I joined this summer offered to pair off all the kids in the group for a Valentine and sticker exchange I was all, why would I ever do that we’re so in!
I bundled up the boys and drove them to Target last week where they begged for every toy in the store searched for their Valentine selection. After yelling ‘I WANT THAT ONE!’ so loudly my eardrums are now permanently scarred a collective collaboration, the boys picked this cheap sweet box of Nemo cards.
Reichen and Latham also whined for me to buy them selected these stickers from the movie Cars to mail their friends.
Since there were two sheets of stickers in one package, I thought I’d be cheap split them. A day later, I mailed each of the boys on our exchange list one Valentine and one sheet of stickers and I admit, I was feeling frickin fabulous relieved about completing my task on time, that is, until Latham received this:
IT’S A HOMEMADE VALENTINE SONG AND FINGERPLAY BOOK!!!
WITH PAGES AND PAGES AND PAGES…
OF SONGS AND FINGERPLAYS!!! BUT THAT’S NOT ALL…
THE MOM WHO MADE IT ALSO STAMPED LATHAM’S NAME IN SESAME STREET LETTERS!!! AND…
SHE MELTED CRAYONS INTO THE SHAPE OF A HEART AND ATTATCHED IT TO THE FRONT OF THE BOOKLET!!! AND…
SHE DIDN’T EVEN SPLIT THE TWO SHEET PACKAGE OF ELMO STICKERS! SHE GAVE LATHAM BOTH SHEETS!!!
Sigh. I didn’t even know you could melt crayons into the shape of heart. I’m so going to lose my membership in the moms club for this one.
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Whatever-we’ll have our own club where you email stuff IF you are feeling up to it, if not we’ll just know that we are thinking of each other.
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this is one of my FAVORITE blogs of all time. hilarious! you are so still in the moms club, atleast you did it!
I’m with Krista, I think we do it for ourselves. The kids (at least most children say under 7 – 8 years of age), they don’t care that someone went to the trouble of melting crayons into a beautiful heart. Now they might care if they get candy with it! LOL
Sigh. I wish incidents like this didn’t bother me, but they do. Does it make you feel any better that I am much more like you than like the mom with the melted crayon hearts?
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Feel free to join my club anytime…the “as hard as i try, i am never going to be one of those moms” club. Remember the cheerios pumpkins incident?!
think of it this way:
the people with toddlers who do things such as melt crayons into hearts are doing it for themselves.
i’m saying this because for finn’s 2nd birthday, i sewed homemade mini booklets out of paper and vintage comic books and then, yes, melted crayons into hearts and gave about 5 hearts and one booklet away as a favor.
i had the best time ever and all finn wanted to do was color.
so i have to admit that i was doing it for me.
UPDATE: I was “shown-up”! My son returned home with a large bag of valentines…cute little cards attached to LARGE GOODY BAGS of candy? What happened to just a cute little card? I thought I was doing good with one lonely peice of chocolate. It’s not Halloween.
LOL. If it’s any consolation…my son went to preschool this morning with his lame-o, cheap-o spiderman valentines with a chintzy peice of chocolate taped to each. Call it good!
Darn those overachievers!!!!!
