Happy Valentine’s Day!
When I was a child, my mother always made a special breakfast table on holidays, with holiday paper plates and cups and napkins, and candy in the cups. Naturally, I have done the same for my own children. I put holiday pencils, stickers, and candy in the cups, appropriate books on the table, and make a theme breakfast of some kind. Now that my youngest is 13, I have tried to give it up, but they complain if I skip this important tradition. In fact, #1 son warned me last week that they were expecting treats today. So they will have treats.
When they were smaller, we also made valentines, iced cookies, centerpieces, and other such projects, but they will no longer do that. Someone told me, when my daughters were teens, that once they left home, the boys wouldn’t do that sort of thing any more, and they were right. My sons humor me a lot, and will still go places with me, but the fact is, teenage guys rarely choose to do crafts with their moms. So, if you have younger children, take that piece of advice someone gave me, and enjoy it now. I am sure that there were things I left undone while we made holiday sweatshirts for the family or attended the Apple Blossom Festival, but I can’t remember now what they were, so they can’t have been all that important.
I do not have a paid subscription, so that could be my whole problem then. I have read all the books leading up to to the one you are reading in the series. They are fun and a quick read. I need go out and get that one though because I love parrots and that one really sounded fun but I forgot about the series until I saw it on your sight.
happy valentines day…
happy valentines day!!!! i’m not sure what i’m gonna do with the gorgeous yarn yet! it’s only 100 yds. i thought about making some felted coasters or something… any suggestions? i just thought it was too pretty =)
And a happy valentines day to you (although it is actually Feb 15 at 9.49pm NZ time that I’m writing this.)
Valentines Day was not something we really celebrated in NZ when I was a kid (same with Halloween) although I notice that that is no longer the case – Christmas, New Year, Easter, and Guy Fawkes were the only days/periods which involved special treats – it may be something to do with the season reversal here – in summer (and often autumn) we are outdoors most of the time doing outdoorsy things.
Our woollen mills closed down 15 to 20 years ago. The one in Dunedin used to make all sorts of things – my mother started working there in the darning dept when she was 14 and she ended up as forewoman of the dept. (I keep nagging at her to take down notes about her time there ‘cos she was working there through WW2, and when Hungary turned communist, in the 1950s I think. A lot of Hungarians ended up working there and some of the stories she tells about them are quite fascinating. ).
I thought America was the land of opportunity – where any man (woman?) could start at the bottom and with good honest hard work make it to the top winning riches and status on the way. (Just being mildly sarcastic here. Something of that myth still holds as far as NZers are concerned I think). As well as low wages, and unpleasant work conditions I think I would add extraordinarily long hours to that list if some of your previous postings are anything to go by. If ever I’m foolish enough to consider the US as perhaps an interesting place to work for a while remind me of your posted comment.