Love at Home

At the beginning of February, I wanted to really foster the feeling of love within our home. At the first Family Home Evening of the month, we talked to the boys about sharing their love for their brothers in small ways. We asked them to each perform one small task every day to give service and show love for every member in the family. It was delightful to see the kindness and love abound in our home!

The boys also each worked on making homemade valentine cards for one another. It was a three day project: the first day they went through some old books and cut out pictures they would like to put on a card for each person in the family, the second day they glued the pictures to construction paper and wrote notes in them, and the third day they hid the cards in the house for the recipients to find! The boys loved finding the hidden cards and reading the sweet messages inside of them from their brothers!

After seeing how much they enjoyed that, Josh and I gave them our valentines in a similar way. We made some cards, wrote hand written messages on them, and fastened some chocolate to them before hiding them for the boys to find! We hid the valentines from Grandma P., too. They had such a great time searching for them and discovering their three cards (and eating the chocolates too)!

I just love Valentines Day! I've always loved receiving hand-written love notes, and being the recipient of affectionate service. Valentine's Day also happens to be the anniversary of the day Josh proposed to me. When we were first married, I asked him if we could please celebrate Valentine's each year with a simple hand-written card for each other. And he's honored that request ever since. It was so neat this year to start that tradition with my children too!

I had such a wonderful time observing as my home was filled with love, being given and received, from each member of our family! Because as the song truly states, "There is beauty all around, when there's love at home!"