Happy Valentine’s Day!
Written by on February 14th, 2009Let me share a beautiful old Valentine’s Day postcard that I have in my collection of old postcards.
Little gold hearts, big red and pink hearts, Cupid’s arrows, and forget-me-nots. What speaks more of love?
Did everyone read something about Cupid this week? We’ll be talking about Cupid tonight and reading more about Cupid in mythology. We studied Cupid recently as he was right-smack-dab in the middle of the story of Apollo and Daphne. In fact, I totally blame Cupid for Daphne getting turned into a laurel tree. If I didn’t love gardening so much, I’d probably be mad.
Need more Valentine’s Day red?
This is the view from my window yesterday as I sat at my desk and typed. I love the bright red cardinals that hang out in our garden. A few years back I even wrote an article about them for The Healthy Homeschool website.
I know it’s not super clear because I’m cropping this out of a picture taken from quite a distance, but you can see that the real-life cardinal is enjoying the mosaic birdbath I made along with two ceramic birds incorporated into the design.
Hey, guess what? Today is not only Valentine’s Day, but for us it is Big Furry Man’s birthday. Yes it is! He is 46 today. Uh, he always picks on me for one month out of the year that he loves being married to a “younger woman” and now here we are at that month.
Okay, so I’ll be 46 next month and then we’ll be the same age again. I guess I should just enjoy that one month that I get to be a “younger woman.”
As far as school this past week, I feel like we accomplished a few major things, in spite of my running around so much. We finished Act I of Hamlet and are really enjoying it. Joseph has said now that he’s very glad he’s reading it and that he was mistaken in saying he didn’t want to. Michaela will still say that it’s boring and yet everytime I pull our copies of Hamlet off the bookshelf she yells, “I get to be Hamlet” or “I get to be the king.” She wants the big parts.
I am also pushing Joseph really hard in the spelling department. I can tell the lightbulb has come on for spelling, just like it did for reading the year that he finally took off with reading. We will have end-of-year testing in May and I want him to have really jumped up there in spelling.
Michaela and I reviewed places she should know from her Five In A Row studies. We pulled out our pretty little storage box of story disks and she began to place them on the world map: Sri Lanka, Atlantic Ocean, Vermont, Australia, Arctic Ocean, Ungava Bay…
All I’ve got to say is who needs a chiropractor when you’ve got a child who can wrench your head around like this to look at the camera? I’ve been aligned. Also, I’m obviously on my lunch break in this picture, because I’ve got my typing gloves on.
Well, it’s off to the work desk this morning. Enjoy your Saturday!
Lynn
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Hi,Lynn,
What a lovely valentine! I love vintage cards – they’re so quaint. We’re beginning to see cardinals more in our area as well. Now that the snow has gone, I’m going to go fill the feeders and put out some suet today. I’ve noticed the starlings out and about in the neighborhood, too. I enjoy watching them. My favorite part of warmer spring and summer is being awakened by the songs of the birds – I can’t wait!
Have a blessed weekend and Happy Birthday to your hubby!!
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Dearest Lynn,
May you have a wonderful day, and give your man an extra squeeze for me! How fun to have a Valentine birthday (I bet he didn’t like it when he was little, though!).
The cardinal looks like he fits right in there; we don’t have redbirds around here, so thanks for sharing yours.
And aren’t children wonderful bone crunchers? Walking on your back when you’re resting in bed, riding the “horsey” when you’re trying to kneel and pray, etc, etc,!
Love,
Marqueta
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You always have the sweetest photos Lynn…
Happy Birthday to your Hubby! Mine is 46 too….and I’m 42, so he’ll always be older than me…LOL
Hugs,
robin
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Happy Valentines Day and Happy B-Day to your BIG Furry Man!
Mine is 2 months and 1 week older than me..I enjoy it for that short time I am younger.
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Had to laugh about the “adjustment” as my kids do that to me all the time!
Luke is the worst – “mom!” crunch, “look at this!” Joys of being a mom.
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Happy Valentine’s Day and Happy Birthday to your hubby!
My hubby is 4 years older than me and the older he gets, the more it bothers him that I’m younger, lol! It’s going to be fun in a couple of years when he hits the big 4-0
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I love the picture of the cardinal!One of my favorite birds!
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Thanks, everyone! We enjoyed our day together. Lynn