Valentine's Day Confessions from Confectionately Yours
Valentine's Day Confessions from Confectionately Yours
Do you look forward to the "love"-liest day of the year? Or does all of that pink and red make you want to puke? According to Hayley Hicks, star of the Confectionately Yours series, sometimes it can be a little bit of both.
Confession: I Love Valentine’s Day! (Except For When I Hate It)
In second grade, Carrie Conway showed up in class with a GIANT pink heart-shaped box topped with a rose. The box was filled with chocolates, and it was from her father, and Carrie didn’t share any of it. She just kept taking the box out of her desk and looking at it, and smiling, and then putting it back in her desk, and I just KNEW that she was going to go home and eat that candy and smile at that beautiful box forever! And that was when I started hating Valentine’s Day. I admit it. It turned into annual Envy Day for me.
I told my friend Meghan this story at lunch yesterday, and she said, “Hayley, you’re looking at it all wrong! It’s better to give than to receive!”
Hearing that TOTALLY turned the whole thing around for me. I love to make my friends smile—and that’s what I’m going to do. So I’m baking some red velvet cupcakes with pink white-chocolate frosting, and dropping a little candy heart on top. If baking isn’t your thing, you could write funny poems, hand out candy, or write a little friendship note and fold it into an origami heart. (You can find origami instructions online.) Also — everyone likes a heart-shaped box of chocolates. ;-)
So I’m going into this Valentine’s Day with a whole new attitude! What are you planning for your friends?
Read Hayley’s Back-to-School Confessions here.
Read the first chapter from Sugar and Spice, the latest book in Lisa Papademetriou’s Confectionately Yours series!
--Vanessa, Scholastic Staffer
i wanted to read this but is under my reading level
Comment #1 | Posted by: Amberblack111 on February 13, 2013 at 03:56 PM
I am having a group party with my girl friends. Candy,soda, and anything fun!! :)
Comment #2 | Posted by: Widesmile on February 13, 2013 at 09:43 PM
omg vaentine's day is so bore-ing i mean when your homeshooled you have no fun today the cupid is just a big guy holding a bow and arrow wereing a dieper
Comment #3 | Posted by: bluebird4505 on February 14, 2013 at 08:50 PM
I think that I can do a party with my friends next saturday for fun and hang out too
Comment #4 | Posted by: Tori on February 15, 2013 at 08:27 AM
I love valentines day.:)
Comment #5 | Posted by: cheerfulvenus8 on February 15, 2013 at 04:32 PM
ohhhh-kay. TOTALLY UNDER MY READING LEVEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment #6 | Posted by: Anoushka on February 18, 2013 at 10:15 PM
yep under my reading level i read at a 11th grade even though im 11 SALTS(smiled a little then stoped)
Comment #7 | Posted by: bluebird4505 on February 21, 2013 at 12:26 PM
i just finished the book it is really good
Comment #8 | Posted by: Abby on February 23, 2013 at 08:23 PM
oh yes good for yall and your parties
Comment #9 | Posted by: somebody on March 05, 2013 at 12:22 PM
i read this book this book was nice
Comment #10 | Posted by: isis on March 12, 2013 at 05:23 PM
I like it because its just soo romantic but a bit sad
Comment #11 | Posted by: purplechihuahua384 on March 16, 2013 at 11:24 PM
i have all three books i was reading the first one and im in the middle of it and it was good! so in guessing that there all going to be awesome books!!!!
Comment #12 | Posted by: alyssa on March 17, 2013 at 11:35 AM
i love this book
Comment #13 | Posted by: jessilovesglitter on March 25, 2013 at 07:14 PM
I really want to read that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment #14 | Posted by: pugblue70 on March 26, 2013 at 05:46 PM