An observation. By Elsie.

Tis the season for some Valentine-ing, you know.
If I was a super duper on the ball kind of a mother we would have accomplished this before this morning. Frankly, I didn't even see my elementary school girlies yesterday after I sent them on their merry way to school. It was a crazy, crazy day/afternoon/night for me.
Which leads us to the reason we are doing Valentine's this lovely morning.
I woke them up a tad early to give us some extra time.
My morning has some division. I like to call it Wave One and Wave Two. Sometimes, when I'm lucky, the little girls sleep until the big kids have already left for school, thus missing Wave One.
Anyhoo, those two lady's were knee deep in Wave One this morning because I told them they had to get dressed and have breakfast before we did Valentine's.
Wave One really resembles more of a hurricane than a gentle wave upon the sand.
In the midst of dishing up pancakes to the girls, which was also in the midst of listening the the two older children in a screaming match, which is also an integral part of Wave One; Elsie made an observation:

"We are NO Valentine family."

Thank you for pointing that out, Dear.
I hadn't noticed.

I guess we will have to work on that.