{"id":1050,"date":"2012-02-14T17:40:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T21:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2012-02-14T17:40:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T21:40:50","slug":"valentines-day-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>1. Like my multipurpose tablecloth? My son needed to decorate a shoebox for Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day, so I bought a 97-cent tablecloth to use a piece of to wrap around the box. When we finished, it just seemed a shame to waste the rest of it, so we breakfasted atop the remains, politely ignoring the missing corner piece.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>2. Remember the 22 bags of post-Christmas chocolate we recently purchased<\/a>, and my reference about repurposing the red and silver kisses for Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day? Done. All three small people picked out the red and silver kisses and taped them to their valentines. Guess who gave them the idea?<\/p>\n

3. My Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day reading is Paula McLain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s The Paris Wife<\/em>, about Ernest Hemingway\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wife Hadley. I suspect the story would be a far more romantic read if I weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t painfully aware of the fact that she was, in fact, but the first of four wives for a man who apparently preferred convoluted relationships over convoluted sentences. Knowing that, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really difficult to read it with any sort of feelings appropriate for this day. However, so far I am enjoying it, and while it is first and foremost a novel, the historical references are quite interesting to those of us with a penchant for American writers and their generally miserable<\/del> lives.<\/p>\n

4. Since my eldest son is sick and my marital consort is committed to a working dinner of sorts, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve decided to ditch even the Hamburger Helper<\/a>. My younger son, who will now consume the largest portion of the meal, loves \u00e2\u20ac\u0153breakfast\u00e2\u20ac\u009d dinners only slightly less than \u00e2\u20ac\u0153snack\u00e2\u20ac\u009d dinner. So, we will feast on pancakes, turkey bacon and broccoli. My personal nutritional philosophy, in case you care to know, involves the belief that all food is permissible if accompanied by broccoli. How else do you think \u00e2\u20ac\u0153snack\u00e2\u20ac\u009d dinners were birthed?<\/p>\n

5. The laugh of the day came today when my daughter got home from preschool and showed us this.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Someone gave me a whoopee cushion for Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she exclaimed. My son, lying until then languidly on the couch recovering from the flu, sat up to look and started laughing. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s definitely the shape of one, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think anyone really gave you a whoopee cushion for Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not going to make the sound,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he explained. She appeared to accept his point, but then when her other brother came home later in the afternoon with his Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day stash, she was excited all over again about the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153whoopee cushion\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he received. And now that the idea is in his head, naturally my younger son wants to give out whoopee cushions to all his friends for Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day next year. This bodes well for me for this evening, as he is the male I will be spending the largest part of my Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s night with.<\/p>\n

Happy Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Like my multipurpose tablecloth? My son needed to decorate a shoebox for Valentine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day, so I bought a 97-cent tablecloth to use a piece of to wrap around the box. When we finished, it just seemed a shame to waste the rest of it, so we breakfasted atop the remains, politely ignoring the missing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[831,105,465,927,928,926,930,929],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","category-island-parenting","tag-coastal-life","tag-island-life","tag-island-mom","tag-kids-valentines-cards","tag-non-romantic-valentines-day-dinners","tag-valentines-day-activities","tag-valentines-day-miscellany","tag-valentines-whoopee-cushions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}