A Veritable Shit Show

March 20, 2014March 20, 2014 / Petite Stag / 1 Comment

Over the last few months we’ve been working on getting my girlies’ epilepsy meds sorted out…what this means is that my lovely daughter who was always terribly sweet, empathetic, polite and charming turned into a wild, loud, rude, angry, aggressive, overtly emotional kid. The type of kid that you may see in Target screaming because you won’t let them buy those cheap princess toys at the checkout line. Or maybe you just happened to see us at Target. Everything became a battle, literally almost everything was a bargaining session. There was door slamming that was tantamount of my teenage years. (sorry about that Mom) There were moments where I would pretend to go to the bathroom just to escape. Sometimes I would go in there and just silent scream. You know where you scream and no sound comes out and somehow that makes you feel better.

Worse yet it was the effing meds. So she couldn’t even begin to try to control it, so getting frustrated seemed incredibly ill placed.

Right after this was taken the strolled was kicked into the gorgeous painting behind it. Umm…

Now that the meds are more controlled when we see these behaviors, we are always wondering is it residual issues with meds, is it the anxiety that we’ve seen come before having a seizure, or is it just plain old 4-year-old behavior? Not sure.

I don’t know about other families but when one of the four of us is in a foul mood or having a rough time, it seems to spread rampantly. We had one of these days a few weeks ago while we were at the art museum of all places. My petite, kept crossing the line into exhibits, getting damn close or even touching the art. To the point where the staff was following us from room to room, at one point I swear I even heard over the walkie talkies, they are coming your way. We left moments before I am sure they would have kicked us out. A few days ago they were giving our free tickets to the museum, but since I am pretty sure there is a picture of me and the petites on some back room wall, we opted to stay home.

No big deal just having a timeout in an art museum, complete with a foot stomp.

All of this makes me laugh a little because now that the meds are getting sorted out we are seeing a lot less of this craziness, but you know it still happens and it’s really all about how you react to it. I have a really hard time not being mortified when we’re in public and she throws a fit, I feel like it’s a reflection of my parenting. This of course doesn’t help when bitchy people (sometimes even other moms, WTF?) give you snarky looks – like control our child; wow, what a brat; ugh, glad my kids are so perfect. I also love the parents that give me the look like I’ve been there, those parents are my favorite. I’ve really tried not to freak out about what other parents or people think. My handsome hubby has really helped me to let it go and not worry about this. Now my mantra is: do I know these people? Do I really care what they think? If I did know them what would they do? Odds are if I was out with my friends when this happens, well I was at the museum with a friend. She laughed hysterically with me, then we went to a local brewery for a mid-afternoon lunch/mommy beer. Don’t judge, we deserved it, we were basically kicked out of an art museum.

My not so expert recommendation for veritable shit shows, try to keep your cool and if you can’t get the hell out of there and laugh about it with a friend.

An English Majors Daughters

March 18, 2014 / Petite Stag / 2 Comments

One of my very first memories as a child was reading a book, it was this book (the exact book my petite is reading), I loved all of the pictures that were in this story so much, plus it is a huge book. I remember sitting on a chair and holding this book looking at all of the amazing illustrations when the book started to slide off of my lap, I tried to hold onto it and in the process ripped the page. I remember being horrified that I ruined the book. My mom reassured me that it wasn’t ruined and a little tape would sort it all out. Now, my daughter pulls it out and the rip is still there…but she doesn’t seem to mind. Now that she is almost five she doesn’t want to take naps anymore, boo! So we have a quiet time rule, she lays in bed and reads books. It is pretty cute to see what her top choices are. She takes quite a large pile of books to bed with her each day.

I think by now everyone has heard that reading with your kids has amazing benefits, time spent with them, time modeling being a reader, spending time talking about illustrations, or favorite parts of stories. As petites get older they can read to you, it’s basically a win-win situation. As a teacher I am always recommending to parents who ask what I can do at home with my kids – read! Be a voracious reader, surround yourself with books, magazines, comic books, whatever.

Since I’m a bit of a nerd my petite has had books galore before she was even born. I religiously read books to my belly and when she was born, I continued even before she was able to hold her head up let alone a book. I think one of the first items we bought for her nursery was a bookcase and it was over flowing by the time she arrived.

One of my favorite things about this petite is that she has an amazing memory for things like stories and songs, and she has a few that she knows all the words to and she now will read them to her little sister. Recently a good friend of mine introduced us to these amazing books – A BabyLit – they are an English majors dream come true for their kids. These books are so incredibly cute. My friend went on a mission to get all of them for her petite. When holidays, birthdays or births would happen my very literary pal would get ones for my girls. A-Mazing. Love like-minded mommies.

Recently, I was at Costco and they had these gems in two packs for under $10 – WHAT?! The only problem was the way the packs were divided I already had one of each in the pack. I should have just bought them all at the time, Costco remorse (the feeling when you think it will be there always and you go back three, no kidding, three days later and they are all gone). Anyway, they are just really cute primers that are easy for bigger kids to share with smaller ones and well if you are an English Major or book lover they are even more fabulous. There are a ton of them and they can all be found on Amazon so that is awesome. There are new ones all the time so you can pick which baby versions of your favorite classics you like the best. Or like me and my pal just try to buy them all, however, I need to get shopping because I only have six at the moment and I believe there are 14!

Just to share a little more about my love for Jennifer Adams BabyLit books – she has other totally cute products that I covet. Check out these incredibly cute totes – so cute for a trip to the library. After perusing her site a little more I found these cute little play sets that go along with the books – could these be any cuter? Oh buddy, then if you’re looking for decor, the illustrator sells the prints from these books! Lovely!

Basically, I am in love with these books and so are my petite’s. I usually give books to expecting mommies and now these books always make it into the Petite Stag’s favorite book list/gift. If you know another book lover I am sure that these books will not disappoint. Also, how cute would they be packaged in a little tote!? Come on, cutest gift ever.

Happy Reading!

Erin Go Bragh – Trip Planning

March 14, 2014March 20, 2014 / Petite Stag / 1 Comment

After I posted yesterday I got to thinking about our trip to Ireland, romantically thinking, about how incredibly wonderful it is. My hubs and I both agree that you can walk out of the airport in Ireland and be good to go. Meaning, Ireland is a place where you feel safe all the time, you feel welcome all the time, no one ever gets pissy with you – even if you don’t know how to maneuver the roundabouts, are trying to sort out how to drive a stick shift in a parking lot, or accidentally bump someone’s car as you are trying to get the hell out of the busy streets of Dublin. In my last post I shared my top 5 (okay, really six) places that I loved the most.

Now, I want to share about the planning and prep-work that we did to get ready for our amazing travels. I hit the local public library and checked out every book they had on Ireland, literally every book. I have the library fines to prove it. I watched all of the Rick Steves episodes about Ireland – in the end deciding I am not sure I like Rick and his ambiguous accent. After religiously pouring through the travel books, I decided, to buy these three books:

So as you can see I love the DK Eyewitness Travel books, they are very visual which I like, it also gives a little snippet of historical info which I find to be super helpful. The reason that I would recommend these books above the others, are mainly for the maps, visuals and accuracy of the information in them(as long as you get a recent one). The back roads book was so helpful in looking at the different ways one could drive around and points of interest along the way – I loved seeing the potential of our trip(this was the book that got me the most fines). The Dublin Top 10 may not have been necessary, but we had used one of the DK Top 10 books when we traveled to Washington DC and it was so helpful, gave a lot more detail of places to eat and have a pint etc. Another reason why the DK books worked well for us is that we chose a B&B package where you paid all up front and then got a little travel book of all the B&B’s that qualified. So we didn’t need a book that would offer places to stay…if you are looking for a travel book that will offer advice about places to stay these are not the books for you. Books that give advice about where to stay that I really enjoyed are, wait for it: Rick Steve’s Book, they have a lot of staff working to make their guides awesome – and unlike the reruns of his trip to Ireland from what seems like the 80s, seriously, with the backpacks, I can’t handle it – thankfully the books are up to date.

My personal travel guide

But here’s the real deal, when you’re traveling you have limited space, so you’re not going to bring a library with you that will take up space in your suitcase when you consider how much room you’ll be needing to bring back bottles of Jameson. At the time, I read a blog that said you should take the books apart and make your own book. EEK! As a book lover, taking a book apart is…well it’s not going to happen. So, I opted to copy the pages that I thought I would need and made my own book (see below), I took notes on places that were of interest to us all in this little composition style notebook. I personally loved having this as we would pull up to places, I could spout out what I knew about it and write down other notes about the places we went. I also kept lists of the things we wanted to see, and then marked them off as we saw them. It was great. But I am a bit of a nerd, and I loved putting together this special book. If this is not your thing, the books listed above will be great, if I had to buy just one book, DK Ireland would be my go to guide. In thinking about it, we have been other places and I have not done anything like this again, I think I did it because I knew how special this trip would be to us, how it was our dream adventure that I would never want to forget.

The next time you come, you’ll be home.

March 13, 2014 / Petite Stag / 4 Comments

When my petite family went to Ireland in 2011 we didn’t really know what to expect, it was our first trip overseas and we were so excited. We had planned out our self driving tour of Ireland – two weeks to cover the entire country, even though our travel agent really advised us not to move so quickly. Little did we know that what he said would mean something else when we returned. It was not about seeing everything, it was about being in the moment and being able to take the time to get acquainted with this remarkable place. In retrospect it was perfect for us to get a small sampling of so many different areas, because in all honestly, once we saw the lovely fields and all of the green we were sold. We were greedy and took all that we could get of this amazing place.

Top Five in Ireland

I couldn’t commit to finding just five attractions that I liked the best so we are going with places…here goes…

In Dublin, we did all of the touristy things, we got a pass to ride the hop on hop off, best deal, when we did take a cab – the asshole, not an Irishman took us on a long journey through the city, when we were essentially a handful of blocks away. Boo! I think my top three of Dublin would be 1. Kilmainham Gaol; 2. Long Room @ Trinity College; 3. Jameson Distillery Tour – I was an official taster. Awesome! My Hubby’s top three were 1. walking the streets over the bridges of the River Liffey (although there were some super sketchy people as the sun went down – I am a bit of a wuss though) 2. Jameson Distillery – he wasn’t a taster 😦 3. Trinity College seeing the amazing long room. You could spend a ton of time in Dublin and still not see everything.

In Wiklow, oh my goodness, when you think of Ireland and see the green fields and the lochs with the misty mountains in your mind, I am pretty sure you’re dreaming of Wicklow. After leaving the grit of Dublin it was our first “country” experience and it did not disappoint. Go to Glendalough! Seriously, go, right now, I think I might have even cried I was so overwhelmed with the immense beauty of it all. The pictures cannot capture it all. The old monastic settlements just standing there for you to walk through, there is a loch to go and stand and look at the gorgeous beauty of it all. In fact it is so lovely that tons of movies have been filmed in Wicklow – Braveheart, PS I love you, Becoming Jane, there is a whole website about doing film drives in Wicklow. Had I known this before hand the hubs and the petite and I would have been reenacting FREEDOM!!!

Cobh and Cork, so if you happen to be one of the 35 million people in the US who claim Irish heritage odds are your people last touched the shores of Ireland in Cobh pronounced “cove”. Before we left I had done a ton of genealogical work about my Irish ancestry, I even have relatives still in Ireland (stay tuned), so it was an important stop for me to see what my great grandpoarents last saw. It is a gorgeous little town. On to Cork, see how I really have six favorites, but I put two together…sneaky…Cork is awesome, I loved it there, made my hubby go shopping with me at this totally fun store Oasis, the open air market was awesome – we picked up goodies to eat on the road so much fun.

County Kerry, I would move here in a millisecond, seriously, I would pack up the petites and go to Kerry, more specifically Portmagee felt like home. My family is from Portmagee, has lived in the same parcel of land for hundreds of years, and some still live there, we had the opportunity to randomly meet them, but that’s another post. Kerry is like Wicklow in the sense that it feels like the purest form of Ireland. I was so nervous and excited to roll into Cahersiveen and then into Portmagee, for me it was all about where my people had come from and how even generations ago impacts who I am today. What made Portmagee so amazing was the PEOPLE! What amazing people, seriously, you felt like you were meeting old friends. People say that kind of thing all the time, and I had previously thought yeah right, strangers aren’t that friendly – no in Ireland they are – okay maybe just much more so in Kerry.

Clifden, I used to have this calendar, you know how you buy a calendar of places you’d rather be then where you are, well I ripped out a month and saved it like 10 years ago and it was Clifden. The place looks like a postcard. We splurged here and took our 16 month old out to a fancy dinner, haha, she was so good, previously she would fuss a bit because she wanted “real food” – as in not boiled veggies. We stayed at this B&B that was our favorite in all of Ireland, Ardmore House. As I write this I am thinking of the place we stayed the night before, the B&B house dog was so cute and the petite wanted to see it, she also wanted to see the cows (working dairy farm – should have known better) and the dog jumped all over me and covered me in shit. I mean I smelled, well, I smelled like cow shit. Sorry I digress. Okay, back to Clifden, some of my favorite pictures from Ireland and memories are from this lovely place. Behind the B&B were cliffs, what? Cliffs in Clifden – say what? So I laid down in the grass by the cliffs and it was just this completely serene moment I will never forget. And my hubby actually captured the moment, how sweet is that?

Ireland is all everyone says it is, so amazing, we miss it, it is a place where I felt like I was at home, in fact after chatting with a local historian in Portmagee about my family he looked at me and said, well dear, the next time you come, you’ll be home. Until then…

Baby Shower Games and Goodies

March 10, 2014 / Petite Stag / 2 Comments

Shower Games

I think we all have been to showers and had to play games that made us roll our eyes or just aren’t terribly fun or the worse the ones where I feel like a bad mom because I don’t know the nursery rhymes. I tried to think about our audience and make choices that would be appropriate from ages 20s – 80s. There are tons of super cute games to choose from, my mommy to be in this case is a very practical mommy, so I chose to have one of the games be:

The Price is Right. price is right This game is so much fun to do. You choose some baby items and pick them up at the store and have shower guests guess how much the items are and then come up with a grand total. It was so fun to then go through and say how much things actually were, lots of people who either hadn’t had babies yet or in a while got a huge kick out of this game. Then the best part, the mommy gets to keep all the goodies.

Daddy Knows Best

This is a hilarious game. There is a list of questions to ask the daddy-to-be (you do it beforehand) and then have the mommy-to-be guess what the daddy said. Guests try to guess how many questions the mommy-to-be will get right. It is hilarious. You go through each question one at a time, read it, mommy answers, then read the daddy’s. In this case, the daddy is pretty funny and we all got a kick out of the answers her provided. Daddy Knows Best Shower Game

Baby Gift Bingo

This is a really fun game for guests, it is also nice if mommy-to-be is a little shy about opening presents in front of everyone. You simply print out a bingo board and have guests write down gifts that they think the parents will get, then they shout out bingo when the get five in a row. There are tons of cute options to purchase on ETSY, or you can make your own. Baby Shower Bingo

Prizes

I wanted to have cute pink prizes for the three game winners, so I chose to buy a light pink polish Essie has tons of options. I put a cute little ribbon around the top. I didn’t think to get a picture beforehand and then it seemed a little silly to ask the guests to put them back so I could take one.

We did three games and I think that was plenty. We did The Price is Right while everyone was eating, then as they were finishing up we did Daddy Knows Best. Then we were going to open presents, so we passed out the bingo cards.

I got lots of compliments about the games at the shower, lots of people said that they were the most fun shower games that they had ever played. A few of the guests, asked for the extra copies so they could use them at showers they were going to host. Overall, I loved the games and was really excited about how people received them.

Shower Favors

The mommy-to-be is a huge tea drinker, so for the favors I chose to give tea. Inside each of the cute little bags were 4 jasmine tea bags. The little sticker says “A Baby is Brewing…expected delivery _____”, I just picked these little stickers up at the stationery store and put the wording I wanted into the template.

Crostini Four Ways

March 5, 2014March 5, 2014 / Petite Stag / 1 Comment

There is something about small bites of food that I just love. Part of it is that you don’t have to commit to a huge portion, you can try a lot of different options. I love that crostini toppings have so many different flavors and textures. Also who doesn’t love toast, did you know that crostini means “little toast” in Italian?

For the baby shower I hosted I wanted to do crostini, but I couldn’t decide on just one, so I opted for four different toppings. All of the recipes make 2 dozen, maybe even a few more depending on how you slice the bread.

These first two recipes are from my uncle, he is a fabulous cook, he’s been making these for years and once you try them you will see why, they are delicious.

Smoked Salmon Dijon Dill Crostini

baguette sliced 1/4 inch, brushed with olive oil and baked at 350 for 10-20 minutes flipping over halfway

1/2 cup goat cheese

6 oz. smoked salmon

dill for garnish

Dijon sauce: 2 tbsp. red onion finely chopped, 2 tbsp. Dijon mustard, 4 tbsp. honey mustard, 4 tsp. chopped dill (can be made ahead of time, I made it the night before).

Toast crostini, spread with goat cheese, dollop the sauce onto the goat cheese, place small piece of smoked salmon on top. Put a small piece of dill on top for garnish.

Tapenade Crostini

baguette sliced 1/4 inch, brushed with olive oil and baked at 350 for 10-20 minutes flipping over halfway

1 cup kalamata olives

1/4 cup drained and rinsed capers

1/2 cup sun-dried tomatoes in oil

1 tsp. Italian seasoning

3 – 4 tbsp. olive oil (add in while mixing)

Put all ingredients into a food processor and pulse till it is a coarse mix.

Spread on crostini.

The Balsamic Strawberry Crostini was a Pinterest find, however, I modified it a little bit, but here is where the idea started.

Balsamic Strawberry Crostini

baguette sliced 1/4 inch, brushed with olive oil and baked at 350 for 10-20 minutes flipping over halfway

1/2 cup goat cheese

2 cups strawberries chopped into small pieces

3 tbsp. balsamic vinegar

1/4 cup basil chopped

coat strawberries in balsamic vinegar and bake at 350 for about 10 -15 minutes on a baking sheet. Spread crostini with goat cheese and put strawberries on top, add basil as a garnish on top.

This recipe was originally an open face sandwich form, but it was so good, why not make it into a smaller bite.

Pesto Prosciutto Egg Crostini

baguette sliced 1/4 inch, brushed with olive oil and baked at 350 for 10-20 minutes flipping over halfway.

classic pesto sauce (or make your own)

6 slices of prosciutto

4-5 hard-boiled eggs sliced ( I don’t use the end pieces because they lack the yolk)

So easy to make, you can use any type of pesto you like or you can make your own. Put a layer of pesto, a small piece of prosciutto and a hard-boiled egg slice. This is an amazing sandwich too, but such a delicious bite as a crostini.

Saint Patrick’s Day with the Petites

February 24, 2014March 4, 2015 / Petite Stag / 1 Comment

Oh my goodness I love all things Ireland. So naturally I am obsessed with St. Paddy’s day. My entire family dreams of Ireland. We were lucky enough to spend two weeks there and fell deeply and madly in love with the people, the sites, the landscape, the general feeling we had the entire time we were there. I think given the opportunity to relocate there, we would pack it all up and go in a heartbeat. Now that I’ve put that all out there, I wanted to share some of our favorite books about Ireland and St. Patrick’s Day.

Fiona’s Luck– The illustrations in this book are lovely. I also love that it talks about a very clever young girl.
Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato– A rather funny story about a man who, you guessed it, has a very large potato.

The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day – Cute little story that follows the same pattern of writing as the Night Before Christmas.

This Is Ireland – This book is more for older children, my 4 year old doesn’t really enjoy it, I love it and think it is neat, but I think she will like it a lot more when she is older.

King Puck– We love this story. The illustrations are really cute and the goat talks, what more can you ask for? I also like it because we drove through Killorglin Ireland and I think that makes it even more fun.

Tim O’Toole and the Wee Folk (Picture Puffins) – This is a cute little story about a man who struggles with following directions and the consequences of that, added bonus – wee folk.

Happy Reading,

Erin

Meal Planning and Organization

February 22, 2014 / Petite Stag / Leave a comment

I have read all about people who plan their meals a month in advance. When I started out working in the real world, there was a teacher that went shopping once a month and had a monthly calendar printed out that she listed all three meals a day, I was in awe – she was amazing, she had healthy fresh lunches every day and saved a ton of money. This is something that as I got older, and now have a family of 3.5 (I give the smallest petite a .5 because she’s only 8 months old, so she doesn’t eat a whole lot) I think about a lot. On Pinterest there are many websites that have been pinned about how these amazing moms create healthy meal plans for their family.

-Why-

What I have noted is that when I plan a weeks’ worth of dinners, I save a ton of money over a months’ time, what I mean by a ton is about $400, I could use an extra $400 each month. I know this sounds crazy right, but seriously, look at what you spend in any given week and then create and stick to a meal plan, it will be a lot less I am sure. I think that this works because you aren’t stopping off at the store on the way home, when you’re hungry and tired and just want something quick, which odds are isn’t terribly healthy or affordable. Because you have a plan you don’t have to come home and do the look in the fridge for inspiration and see none then call for takeout. Another bonus is if you plan out two weeks in advance you can buy in bulk and save a little here and there. I will say that I always had to stop weekly for produce, no matter how well I planned, we’d either eat it or it wouldn’t last longer than a week.

-Pitfalls-

Where I seem to usually struggle, is that I will get a plan and then on the day I am supposed to eat, grilled chicken salad, I want a giant cheese burger. Or even better, when I was working if I had had a long day and didn’t want to cook and wanted some amazing Thai take out. The worst was when I would stop off for something premade, like at Whole Foods, $50 later and I have half a green salad and a cookie. These are the areas that are always my personal pitfalls.

-How to Make it Work-

I am trying to figure out a menu situation that will be practical and pretty all at the same time. I need something that will help me to keep up with this, I don’t want meal planning to be a tedious endeavor or I won’t stick with it. I know if I plan well that we can save money and eat healthier. Sounds like a late New Year’s resolution to me. Ugh, another pitfall, in the weekly meal planning process, I tend to forget the meals I make, and then I get stuck with some variation of grilled chicken, tacos, soup, salad, grilled steak, pork chops – repeat, repeat, repeat over and over again until I never want to eat it ever again. This was my thinking in choosing the boards that have the meal cards, that you can rotate through.

-Let’s Make this Happen-

The best way, in my opinion, is to have some sort of organizational system. Here are some of my favorite menu planning ideas for small spaces:

I love all of these creative ideas, now if I could just choose one and stick to it.

-Erin

Valentines for the Petite

February 13, 2014February 16, 2014 / Petite Stag / Leave a comment

This year we made crayon hearts, we did this a few years ago when she was 2, but she doesn’t remember so we did it again this year. It is really a fun craft to do. When I first read about this on pinterest 2 years ago, there was no mention of the things that can go wrong when you’re making them. So I wanted to add some insight for people making these.

You need a lot of crayons… and not dark ones, there are a surprising amount of dark colored crayons in any given box. It is also a lot easier to get them out of the pan if you are using a silicon heart shaped pan. When I went to make these a few years ago, I could only find a 6 cup heart muffin pan, this one would be a lot better since you would get 12 crayons at a time – using less crayons.

Another area to look out for when you pull it out of the oven, you don’t want to jiggle it too much or the colors will blend together giving it a more mixed up look (unless that is the look you’re going for, then jiggle away).

Things you’ll need:

4-5 boxes of 24 crayons (take out the dark colors)
xacto knife
regular knife
muffin pan

You’ll want to set the over to 250 degrees. Cut the pieces into about a centimeter size, it doesn’t need to be exact. Mix them into the cups the way your petite likes the best. Pop in the oven. Using the silicon pan it will take about 17-20 minutes to melt the crayons. If using a metal pan, about 15 minutes.

I watch it so it doesn’t go completely liquid, you want it to look a little bumpy on top. It doesn’t smell terribly when you’re melting it, but if you have a petite or someone who is more sensitive to smells be aware. You’ll want to keep them in the pan until they are completely cool.

The petite making her Valentine’s for her friends with lots of very thoughtful crayon piece placement.

Happy Valentine’s Eve!

Our Favorite Valentine’s Day Books

February 12, 2014January 30, 2015 / Petite Stag / 1 Comment

I love books, from the time the petites were in the womb working on growing little ears, I read books to them. They have amassed quite the collection of books. I have a book tub that I keep holiday and seasonal books in, this has worked really well for us. We have quite a few Christmas books, one for each day of the month. But for Valentines day we have just selected a few favorites. What is neat about having a hidden book tub, is that when the books are pulled out around the holiday it is almost like having a whole new set of books.

The books in the image above are my petite’s favorites, not all of them are specifically about Valentine’s Day, some are about love or kisses, which we like just the same. There is one that I think we will add for next year when the littlest petite can open flaps. Fisher Price Little People Valentine’s Day is Here!

Valentine Friends, If Animals Kissed Goodnight, The Biggest Kiss, Minnie’s Valentine, The Night Before Valentine’s Day, The Best Thing About Valentines, Crocodiles Need Kisses Too, Amelia Bedelia’s First Valentine

What are some of your petites favorite Valentine reads?

The Petite Stag

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Author: Petite Stag

A Veritable Shit Show

An English Majors Daughters

Erin Go Bragh – Trip Planning

The next time you come, you’ll be home.

Baby Shower Games and Goodies

Crostini Four Ways

Saint Patrick’s Day with the Petites

Meal Planning and Organization

Valentines for the Petite

Our Favorite Valentine’s Day Books

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