Here it comes!! {Southern Maine Photographer}

Valentine's Day!! You know, that day when you share with your sweetie(s) how much you love them...eating sweet treats and just lovin' on each other all the day through!! YAH RIGHT! We've got two hockey games and since the school parties are now over and the bellies are already full of sweet treats, we will be watching the girls coming off their sugar highs.

I would like to give a bit of my own advice to any guy who dares to read this.....all she really wants for valentines day is: peace, maybe a bit of pampering and definately a handwritten love note! If anyone wants to send an exerpt from this blog entry to my darling husband, his personal email address is.... NAH, nevermind, I'll tell him myself! We've got one of those amazing relationships where not much goes unsaid. I would love a sweet note from him though....the kind I used to get when I was a new mom, sporting that "new" (not a good "new") figure and walking around with dried drool on my shoulder (I soooo miss those days). Since my figure hasn't changed much and I do have drool free shoulders now, the love notes are usually brief....very brief....as in "Love, Jean" brief! Just one, one that I can keep forever in a special place that one day our kids can read! Let's see how he does now that the pressure is on and I've blogged about it!

Tonight...I watched this.......

The last branch in my personal family tree is learning to write her name. Admittedly, I don't spend much time with her doing this....she's learning most of it from Mrs. Potter and having her peers all learning along side her is making it fun for her. (I'm sentimental about all these milestones with her, sorry she's all I blog about but its all bitter sweet for me).

As the girls and I were enjoying our girls night in, I heard them working quietly together. I went to investigate (you know, when girls are quiet, you MUST investigate!) I found them working together on writing Marleigh's name. It warmed my heart to watch Makenna's pride in showing Marleigh how to form the letters. I've got to document these times....the teen years aren't far away and thanks to advice from my friends of teen girls, I'm bracing myself for those days yet embracing these days!
Jean and the boys are at a hockey game and will be out a good part of the evening. We miss them but girls night in is always a nice change of pace. With no distractions around them, they discover each other again and I can only hope this will last a good part of our February school vacation!

Happy Valentines Day to you my friends! I hope someone showers you with peace, pampering and love....and maybe even slips you a love note like mine!

Enjoy!
~kel~