The boys loved all their valentines cards and gifts (and we loved all the candy they couldn't eat!). Thank you! I am sorry to report that nearly half of it is gone already, after just one night. Josh made a very pretty Valentine for us at school. It was a red heart doily with lots and lots of small beads in various shades of red glued to it. Not his usual taste! He usually goes for big, messy art. He told me repeatedly that he made it for "Mommy, Daddy, Lucas, and Sammy!" But all his teachers wrote on it was "To Mommy, Daddy and Lucas." They must not have understood what he was saying or who Sammy is.
Speaking of Sammy, he got quite the Valentines day surprise. I let him out into the back yard in the morning as I helped load Josh and Lucas into the car for school, and he started howling like never before, a long steady guttural noise. We quickly but apprehensively moved to the back to see what was going on, and a HUGE raccoon was cornered in the back with Sammy. It was as big as Sammy, who is 80 lbs. It didn't even look like a raccoon, except for the telltale markings. (After doing some research later, I am afraid that perhaps it was a pregnant raccoon.) We were able to call Sammy away before he got hurt, and the raccoon leapt over the fence into another neighbor's yard, and shortly thereafter we heard terrible noises coming from that yard. We are hoping it was the crows in the trees the raccoon climbed into, but we are fearful it was a cat making that noise. A harrowing morning. We live in the city, people! There is not supposed to be wildlife in our yard!
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