Valentine's Day

I was reading a friend's blog awhile ago and came across a post about The 14 Days of Valentine's. Basically, you do something special for you spouse each day leading up to and on Valentine's Day. I loved the idea and decided to do it for Damien this year. I think he really enjoyed it. Here's what I did:

1. One homemade Valentine card
   
2. Two shoe trees
3. Toy Story 3 movie night
4. Rock climbing date
5. Ciniminis from Burger King for breakfast (500 calories)
6. Six GOOD chocolate bars
7. Seven pieces of Camembert (his favorite French cheese) with fancy crackers in his lunch
8. Sourdough waffles for breakfast (8 ingredients)
9. Coupon to have nine items of clothing ironed
10. Homemade origami box with slips of paper inside listing ten things I love about him
    
11. "I love you" written in eleven different languages and posted on the mirror
12. Homemade crossword puzzle
13. Bakers dozen of his favorite cookies
14. Valentine's Day dinner

It was really fun to do for him, especially because he didn't know what was going on until day 2. When I gave him his homemade Valentine card (on day one) he thanked me but the look on his face said, "Where is my gift? Is this all I get?" It was really fun come up with everything and get it all together secretly without him knowing. He almost caught me one day when he came home early. Luckily our door has a lock on the inside that can only be unlocked from inside. It gave me enough time to shove what I was working on into a drawer before opening the door without him being curious!