sister wives

valentine's day is generally overrated, but occassionally it lives up to the hype.  craig took cindy and me out to dinner at thaiphoon (my fave).  we are calling ourselves the sister wives.  we had yummy food and great conversation.  it was really nice.  craig got cindy some pretty candles and i got beautiful flowers and a heart shaped box for my box collection.  it was a great night...until we got home and cindy found that her car had been wrecked while we were gone by one of her kids and the heart-shaped pizza she left for her kids to eat for dinner caught on fire while they were cooking it.  not good. 

another great valentine's day moment was isaac calling me this morning at 8:00 (his bus comes at 8:30).  i was driving sam's carpool to millcreek.  isaac said, "i don't have any valentine's and i reminded you all weekend".  the reminding part is not true, i'm sure.  luckily we had a box of valentine's that he quickly wrote his name on.  we turned a stiff shopping bag into a valentine's day box and then ran to the market to get candy.  we ended up with easter candy because the store people can hardly wait to move onto the next holiday.  our "nerds" had little hopping bunnies--an extra treat for people on valentine's day today.  we taped the candy to the valentine's while we sat in the car in the store parking lot and then i promptly deposited isaac at school with everything he needed.

i went to parent teacher conference at the high school and briefly visited with three of jake's teachers.  he's a rock star.  everyone loves him.  all the coaches want him to play their sports.  people want him to be their sterling scholar.  and some people want him to be a student body officer.  he's getting great grades while taking hard classes.  he just came from heaven that way though.  wonder what the future holds for jake.

i will say that the decision has finally been made and it's hard to announce the end of an era, but jake has decided to be a track star at the high school instead of a baseball star.  so in the blink of an eye we went from four baseball players around here to just two.  sad days.

caroline bounded home from school yesterday with six flowers from secret admirers at school.  she had a great valentine's day and whoever took the time to send her those flowers really made her day.  later she made cookies and took them to some people to brighten their day and i could see the "pay it forward" principle in action.  what a great day.