My daughter Willow is four and a half, and is extremely excited to celebrate "Ballemtimes Day" today... especially after seeing what her thoughtful Daddy left for her and Mommy to enjoy {pictured to the right.}
She gave me a gift - her own little red monster truck toy {have no idea where that came from} which she presented to me saying, "Happy Ballemtimes, Mommy... look, it's red!"
Right now she's coloring a special pink heart-shaped card for Daddy, which is an awesome way to keep her out of my hair just long enough to check my emails and *hopefully* finish this post! While my hubby and I {together exactly 15 years and 2 days} pretty much stopped with the Valentine antics years ago, having our little boogie-butt around has made silly "Hallmark" holidays like this a bit more fun again.
The fact that SHE gets excited about it makes the day more exciting for us. She gives us a reason to buy chocolates and cupcakes... to pull out the red and pink construction paper and make colorful little "Ballemtimes" for each other... and to feel a little less jaded by the gross consumer-frenzy aspect behind this so-called holiday.
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