The Week of Valentine's Day

This is always a fabulous week in the middle school world, and by fabulous I mean terrible... The kiddos take Valentine's day WAY to serious.  I had three different kids ask me if I thought their significant other would like flowers or chocolate better... I wanted to say, if you really cared about them you would surprise them with these things or whatever it is they like at random times throughout the year, not just on the day when society says you should.... Then I remembered that I teach middle school, where my manicure lasts longer than relationships and they don't really know the person they want to buy said cliche items for anyway... Not wanting to be responsible for ruining someone's life, aka suggesting the wrong Valentine's gift, I told them to ask the friends of said valentine, and not to bring those things to school, don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

But alas, they will anyway and on Friday I will hear all about they can't believe how so-and-so brought her#1 candy because he was Facebook messaging her#2 last night and can you believe that... Or the poor girl who's valentine dropped the ball and forgot... or the relationship that will inevitably end... Let's face it, Valentine's day is a mess in middle school and high school. We have our annual Valentine's Day Dance on the actual holiday this year, which will just add to the excitement.  We do our dances during the school day so the kiddos have the last two periods of the day off and teachers supervise. If you haven't been to middle school dance since your own, I suggest you chaperone one sometime, they are something else! 

Don't get me wrong, there are parts of Valentine's Day I LOVE, like candy, and old school Disney Princess valentines, that I might or might not still give to friends every year, and making my famous sugar cookies :) So I will be participating in those aspects of the holiday... And of course wear awesomely flamboyant heart themed Target dollar store jewelery! Check out my V-Day cookie bundles from two years ago (I was sick last year).

Hand drawn pinup card, lips and hearts sugar cookies, homemade "tagalongs"

Don't worry, the cards didn't go to the bundles for fellow teachers! Looking forward to making these again this year :) I hope you all have a love filled and drama free Valentine's Day!

Until next time, 

Karissa