I love holidays. An extra excuse to plan family traditions and create special rituals? Sign me up.

And, shockingly, I actually used to not like Valentine’s Day. But when I realized it was another day I could show my favorite people how much I love them? I then loved Valentine’s Day.

So I did what I do with any holiday: I asked myself, “What could we do that would make me so excited for this day? What would be such an enjoyable for us to celebrate this holiday? What do I want our children to remember as traditions?”

Weeee! I love dreaming about traditions.

And I decided this: I wanted to eat heart-shaped food and I wanted to make gift baskets. That combo would really excite me for Valentine’s Day. So I took this epiphany and this line in our budget (aka how we prioritize traditions + celebrations) - and from there, I made a tangible plan on how we’d love to celebrate Valentine’s Day:

• We’d display our favorite books about love, Valentine’s Day, and kindness in KK’s bookshelf in our den. I’ll take a picture when we do this - all I have right now is a photo of our January bookshelf. (We have this bookshelf and I painted it with this white paint. Here’s our “winter” Amazon board with all of our December - February books.)

• I’d make Brett’s favorite