At the book fair!
Outfit details: Blazer: A New Day, Target | Shirt: Who What Wear | Pants: Mossimo, Target | Boots: DV
Jonah and Baron’s Outfits: Blazers: Shirts and Pants H&M Kids
This Valentine’s Day is one I won’t easily forget. Like any other day, I look forward to waking up to our normal daily routine of kissing the boys good morning, seeing John off to work, and getting the kids and myself ready for school, work, and the day. Jonah’s school had “Lunch with Loved Ones” where parents, guardians and family members could join their student at lunch and accompany them to the book fair. I excitedly dressed the boys in their matching Valentine’s outfits and looked forward to spending time and sharing a meal with both boys together. Baron was especially excited to get to go to “brother’s school”. What made this Valentine’s Day different was coming home to the news of the tragic shooting in a South Florida high school where 17 people (students and staff) were killed, just after Baron and I returned home from Jonah’s school. It made me think that this violence could have happened anywhere and to anyone at any time. Just as the previous school shootings that have taken place , it could have happened at Jonah’s school while we were there and I would not have known how to react or protect my own children and life in a moment’s notice. Without politicizing the tragic event, I do believe that solutions are needed once and for all. What those solutions are I do not know. But I do know one thing, that no matter what political beliefs or political party one belongs to, we need to come together as a nation and as a community and come up with concrete solutions that can be implemented locally and on a global scale to keep our children and our nation’s future safe.
Our Valentine’s evening still ended on a positive note at home. John cooked us a gourmet meal (lamb and gnocchi – my fav!), we tucked the kids in bed, and finished a good bottle of wine with chocolate, reminisced about our first Valentine’s date and discussed and debated the day’s earlier events. We both agree that we all need to love our children, set good examples and recognize when someone or something is not right, and act accordingly.
John’s specialty: roasted lamb and pesto gnocchi