Valentine’s Day remains harmless and stress free at 5 and 3. The day is more about candy and hearts than anything else so it’s still fun. Emma and Maia could not wait to wake up on Valentine’s morning and skip off to school but not before I attempted to make every effort at making their morning glorious. Queue the flowers from dad, the candy, cards, and gifts from “mom and dad” and the extra stress of making pink heart pancakes that came out a little lopsided and more strange streaky red than pink. I tried and they loved it. I’m new at this kindergarten thing so when Emma said she wanted to take those sweetheart boxes of candy to school I said easy peasy done. Because in Disney world preschool there are no rules candy is allowed. I’m also the mom that wants to get it done early (but of course usually does not) so I jumped at securing 24 boxes of candy for Emma’s Valentine’s. Then came the email. NO CANDY. Of course it makes sense but now what? Amazon is what. Amazon is always the answer so I over ordered and set out to make the greatest Valentine’s gift bags with Emma to avoid a complete disaster after I already said yes to the candy. Maia got to take all the candy to school for her preschool friends (her own candy nemo wristband and her sisters sweetheart boxes in a special bag as well) whose parents were I’m sure thinking wow Maia’s mom sure does like candy and Valentine’s Day! I swear it wasn’t intentional I just didn’t need 24 boxes of candy sitting around the house. Emma put together her bags of bracelets, pencils, and erasers. A simple card would have sufficed but both girls were thrilled. So off they went in their heart shirts and skirts dressed for the occasion spreading love into the day. I couldn’t wait to get home and listen to the rundown — which is exactly what I did. They couldn’t stop talking both vying to get time to squeal about their day. Then we sat on the floor and went through all of the Valentine’s one by one (close to 48). Teddy and Ben wrote “love” on her cards. Hmmm. I see that. Rodrigo went over the top with heart stickers. I see you too R. Here’s the deal. Some people hate Valentine’s Day some live for it. For me it used to be another day but now it’s more and it’s better than politics and Facebook and Instagram and any sort of news social media outlet. Through the eyes of 3 and 5 it’s awesome and I’ll take that every day.