This is my first year with a kid in school. Well, he’s actually only in preschool. BUT they celebrate all the holidays! I am admittedly not great about planning for holidays. Usually, it’s the night before and I think to myself, “Oh no! Baylen has a party at school tomorrow!” And so we end up picking up treats and whatnot on the way the next morning.
That definitely happened yesterday. But you know what? It’s okay. We got Spiderman cards on the way, and he didn’t even know we were scrambling. Hopefully I’ll have my stuff together a little bit more by the time he’s in grade school.
When we got home though, I took it as a good reminder to make Valentine’s Day cards for the grandparents. Of course I didn’t have much in the house, so we got creative! Sometimes I think I put this pressure on myself to do an intense craft, but simple is WAY better. Plus, their attention spans last for about 4 seconds anyway, so this was perfect!
I grabbed a cup of coffee and snacks and set them up with some paint.
I cut out hearts and taped them on top of the card, then instructed them to use the pencil erasers as paint brushes and they dotted their cards.
Mckinley was more into her snack than the painting, leaving Emmy to finish both of the cards.
We took off the taped hearts, and they were excited to see their empty hearts underneath! Then Mckinley proudly held the card and took all the credit.
We’re excited to send these out to Nana and Papa!
I’m NOT a Pinteresty mom. The furthest thing from it, probably. Google’s more my thing. 😉 BUT, I need to remember that I can still provide fun and creative opportunities for my kiddos by keeping it simple!
It takes all kinds of moms to make the world go round!
It also takes all kind of snacks, amen?
The snacks we ate here are called FLYJOY bars and I’m excited to take a minute and tell you about them! They are quinoa energy bars that are made with natural ingredients and are sustainably sourced! Our whole family absolutely LOVES them. I love that I can feel good about the clean and healthy energy they give my kids.
They have all these flavors to choose from and I actually like all of them! We keep them in our pantry, in our cars, in our diaper bag, in our gym bags, ect. When we get them in the mail my kids literally want to eat ALL of them at once. I’ve learned to cut them in half to make them go a little further for them! 🙂
Cashew Cookie Dough (our family’s VERY favorite!)
Blueberry Almond
Cherry Coconut Macaroon
Peanut Butter & Jelly
Cranberry Nut
Coconut Macaroon (my second favorite!)
Peanut Butter Cacao
A portion of the profit from each FLYJOY bar goes directly to HOPE International, a nonprofit that provides business training and microloans to the world’s poorest families!
If you’re an on the go kind of family (or maybe even a last minute planner) like I am, you will definitely want to try them. I had a super busy day yesterday and ate three in one day – haha! I have a discount code that’s exclusively for you too! Simply visit FLYJOY.com and enter ART25 for 25% off your purchase! They are also sold on Amazon! (Discount code is good at the FLYJOY website only.)
Happy Valentine’s Day, EVERYBODY!
XOXO,
Amber
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This post was sponsored by FLYJOY. All opinions are my own.
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I’ve been wanting to try these bars so the coupon code was the final push for me. 🙂 I bought the variety pack because there were so many that looked good to me!
Our Valentine’s this year were paper hearts cut out of scrapbooking paper and I let my (almost) two year old scribble and put stickers on them. I also helped her write her name, not Pinterest-worthy, but they were a hit with the grandparents and sooo easy!!