Can you feel the love?

We tried something new this year for Valentine's Day.  I read about this idea around Christmas in the Thriving Family magazine from Focus on the Family (which I totally recommend if you don't have it) but couldn't remember all of the details so we just made it our own.

The Sunday before Valentine's Day, we each put our names in a bowl and then drew names.  (If you got your own you had to put it back and redo it).  Anyway, once we all had names drawn the game began.  Our goal was to have a week of love...each person was to show love in a special way to the person whose name they drew.  Then, on Friday (when we celebrated) we would guess who had our name, and we gave little prizes for guessing right.

The interesting part of this game is that nobody wanted the other person to be able to guess who had their name, so everyone was being honouring and loving to EVERYONE, just to be sneaky.  It was the most peaceful week in our house ever.  The girls were stumbling over themselves trying to put away each other's plates and toys, or leave surprise notes or treats.  We even went to the dollar store and each of the girls bought something for their special someone with their own money.

On Friday, we decorated the table, had a fancy steak and lobster dinner (G and E had chicken nuggets), and we ended it with a chocolate fondue.  Before the chocolate fondue, we exchanged our little gifts, and guessed who had our names.  It was a super fun week and I think we have started a new yearly Valentine's week tradition!  :-)

The girls with the man in their lives...for now...

Mmmmmm....chocolate fondue, fruit and my precious girls.  What could be more fun?