DelightStruck

I've often heard my siblings reminisce about the year my mother threw a magical Valentine's Day party. She surprised them as they got off the school bus that afternoon in the 70s (long before I arrived on the scene). They had no clue at all of what she had been secretly planning in the days before. She sure had the gift for weaving childhood magic out of the simplest of things. Back when there was no Pinterest or Googling, she created her own dream parties for the little hearts that meant the most to her. To this day all eight of my siblings remember with great fondness and wonder her after school parties. I have my own wonderful memories with her, but not quite the same as theirs, since there is 12 years difference between myself and the sibling right before me. I kind of grew up an only child, with the benefit of much older siblings - really two different generations. A Retro Valentine's Day Party Getting back to them, her and the parties... With eight of them, th...