Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day from macdonaldbaby.com! We love to celebrate, and what better thing to celebrate than love?! The creative cat in me started to get really excited when I first saw the note on the door of Lillian’s classroom that requested parents bring in a shoebox for Valentine’s Day. Images of a super cute glitter-covered and fur-trimmed box filled my mind and I couldn’t wait to provide Lillian with the most fabulous box for which to receive her valentines! As I paid close attention to the party planning details at school, I got the creeping feeling that maybe this shoebox wasn’t about me. Could it be that these children, who surely cannot be trusted with a glue stick and candy hearts, are to decorate their own shoebox?! Alas, it was a sad day when Ms. Amanda confirmed my suspicions, and I was to bring in a regular shoebox…a beautiful blank canvas.
I immediately threw my creative energy into something that I knew I had control over – Lillian’s valentines for her friends! You can imagine my joy when Brian saw them and raved about how pictures of them MUST go on the blog because they were that good. Despite the devastating cuteness of the these little diddies, I really think that the kids will love them! Lillian has had a blast with them already, when she sees the frog, she says ‘hop’, and makes the appropriate animal noises for the monkey and lion!
Even after completing the gifts for Lillian’s classmates, I had a little bit of creative spunk left in me to shower my coworkers with a little extra love. Yum yum!
ps-the whole shoebox project was redeemed when the comment on Lillian’s Daily Report Card from school on Friday said, “Lillian loved working on her shoebox for Valentine’s Day!” That’s my girl! I might not be able to sleep tonight due the anticipation of seeing her genius creation! I promise to post a picture of it after the festivities have ended!
5 Comments
Aunt Jeanie on February 17th, 2011
Lisa you are incredible! What cute valentines! Can’t wait to see Lillian’s Lovely Balintine’s Box!
Aunt Kristin on February 17th, 2011
Oh my gosh Lisa!!! You will most definitely have to participate in Anabelle’s next Valentine’s Day. You could sell those and make big bucks!!! But Anabelle gets all the perks since she’s family, right? Seriously … those are absolutely incredible!!
Aunt Kristin on February 17th, 2011
PS. Aunt Jeanie – aren’t you GREAT Aunt Jeanie?!?! Come on … don’t steal my thunder 
Shannon on February 18th, 2011
Man, I wish I was in Lily’s class! Those are adorbs, Lisa!! Impressive shoe box design too! 
grandma macdonald on February 14th, 2011
Lisa, These are incredible!! The other mothers are envious and the teachers are running around showing all the other teachers what one of their mom’s did. Wow can’t wait to see what Lillian did as I’m sure she will be crafty like her mom. Here’s to many more Valentine’s Day Parties to come!!!