Walking through Costco, the subject of Valentine’s Day came up. Margie said she wanted to talk with me about it, and I said the timing was perfect, since it was tomorrow.<\/p>\n
“Valentine’s Day is tomorrow?” Katherine asks from the cart.<\/p>\n
“Uh-huh,” I reply. <\/p>\n
She whispers conspiratorially to me from the cart, pointing toward a floral display on an end cap, “Let’s buy Mommy some flowers for Valentine’s Day.”<\/p>\n
She even picked out which bouquet to buy, and Mommy was truly touched.<\/p>\n
She was also awfully damned cute this afternoon decorating Valentine’s cards for her preschool class (cards via workbook via Nona — thanks!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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