Hmmm… how can I say this and not seem like a complete and total jerk? I hate holidays. I’m not good at them, and for the most part, holidays have to be celebrated in some form at school. Dang it.
I’ve pretty much got Valentine’s Day down. It’s the closest thing to a party that we have – we decorate boxes all week, we make room decorations (gotta learn those symmetry skills by cutting out hearts) – and then the actual day is a big Excitement Fest of passing out valentines and doing various heart-related games and activities while using LOUD VOICES. That part is fine (‘fine’), but the lead-up is a bear. They are so! excited! right now.
Something compounding it is that we are having a Love Songs concert tonight (Thursday) for our families. The premise is super-simple: we sing all the songs we know about God’s love for about 20 minutes, then eat cookies and go home. Sounds simple, but all the little back-up stuff has to be done. Cookies made, songs learned, a slideshow made (I think that’s the one I’m going to let slide), stuff hauled over, sweating, tear-down, blah blah blah.
Meanwhile, I write this post and wait for the icing on my cookies to dry so I can stack them up and go to bed. Man, I am a grinch.