I tend to think of Valentine's Day as something that teenagers or new couples celebrate. Here it is celebrated mostly by young children. Cooper has been making Valentine decorations for the past week at Wee College including a specially decorated box to bring all of his Valentine's Day cards home in. Wee College sent home a list of all the children's names in each class as well as a request not to personalise gifts as this would make it difficult for the teachers to distribute all of the gifts. A friend in Montreal also gave me a heads up that Valentine's Day was big here too so I was appropriately prepared for today. On the weekend Cooper and I made gifts for all twelve kids in his class, this was a small box of Dora/Diego loveheart chocolates, a pencil and a Handy Manny valentine card.
Cooper was so excited about his Valentine's Day party today, he wore his red skivvy and red shoes and took his bag of gifts and a fruit platter. It did seem extra cold this morning but it was a gorgeous sunny day. The fact that Steve's car wouldn't start this morning (he had to get someone to give him a jump start) didn't ring any alarm bells or the fact that the sign in the town playground said -37deg C so we drove to Wee College as normal. We got to the car park and it was empty! I called a friend and she told me that school was cancelled because it was -40 without windchill!! It did seem cold but it didn't seem that bad, instead we went to Tim Horton's for a donut. Happy Valentine's Day.
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