Happy New Year! {and Heart of the Farm Planner}

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Happy 2018 friends! I'm feeling excited and hopeful about the coming year, and hope you are too.

My husband and I have an on-going debate about our family calendar. He wants me to input everything into my iPhone so that we can sync-up calendars. I agree that this is helpful. 

However... I am a visual person. I'm also a list-maker. And there are about a zillion things I attempt to get to each week (key word - attempt ;). I'm not going to spend the time inputting each of those little things into an online calendar. Plus, I like to be able to look at a week at a time. Or a month at a time. For me, there's still just something about paper and pen. 

Last year, I admired this beautiful planner made by Cory at Heart of the Farm Planner. 

And this year, I'm over the moon to have one! 

~ A Sweet Valentine Tradition ~

From the time I was a little girl (I'm guessing age four), my dad has given me a 
heart-shaped box of chocolates each year for Valentine's Day. 

With the red box, is always a sweet little note that simply says, 

"Will you be my Valentine? Love, Dad."

Not only are my mom, sister and I blessed recipients ~

 my dad now also sends them to his grandchildren.

At the tender age of five, our youngest was delighted to find his box of chocolates had a puppy and kitten on the front."I always get the cute one! I love the cute one!" he said. (And I think his big brothers are good with that. :)

I'm grateful for my dad's thoughtfulness and this sweet gesture, year after year. 

Do you have a Valentine's Day tradition? 

xo

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