Ep. 96: A Very Eventful Valentine’s Day Weekend (Lessons Learned and Remembered)

M Is for Mama Podcast

Abbie Halberstadt

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Shaun and I are not huge Valentine’s folks, although neither are we the type who grumble about “manufactured holidays” and “forced love.” We typically view the holiday as a reason to get special treats for our kids and sneak in a yummy meal together.

This year, though, Shaun thought it would be fun to make it a weekend away.

And it was! But also, parts of it weren’t.

And there were plenty of opportunities to both learn from our mistakes and some rather unfortunate circumstances out of our control and also to remember anew the basic principles of not overreacting, giving each other grace, and keeping the main things the main things.

Hopefully, you enjoy this Valentine’s Day Weekend storytime and come away encouraged to invest well in your marriage, whatever circumstantial hiccups come your way.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the MS for Mama podcast. I'm your host to Abby Halberstadt,
0:08.8	happy wife, Momitin, I will believe in Christian. And on today's episode, we're going to do
0:13.3	Storytime, Valentine's Day weekend story time, to be exact. And I think you guys are going to enjoy
0:18.4	it. Plus, hopefully get some nuggets of truth and good principles from it.
0:22.7	Before I dive in, I want to highlight our podcast sponsor, Boatberg Music Academy,
0:28.0	which is a wonderful way to encourage your students to learn together.
0:31.9	In fact, with my code, MSRoma 20, you get 20% off each month that you're enrolled
0:36.2	that you can share between siblings,
0:38.1	between the instruments of mandolin, guitar, ukulele, fiddle, and piano. So it's way less than you
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0:51.0	way to jump them right into song-based learning. They even send pins and badges to your door to motivate your students to practice more, so you don't have to nag them to do it. Remember, you can use the code MS for Mama 20 for 20% off every month that you're enrolled. Also, I want to highlight my friend Corey from Good Book Mom, who creates biblically sound book lists for ages 0 to 12 in the month of February. She's got first chapter books,
1:12.1	books that affirm biblical marriage and gender and crush-free Valentine's books that you can
1:17.4	check out for your kids. You can use the code Abby 5 for $5 off or Abby 75 gets you an all-access
1:23.2	yearly subscription for just $75. I'll put the link in the show notes. Okay, I told you that it was
1:28.8	going to be story time. This past weekend on Valentine's Day weekend, we actually started out
1:34.9	with Valentine's Day being pretty low-key, which is fine. We are not huge Valentine's Day people.
1:41.2	But more low-key than usual, I would say, because we had a basketball game for our
1:44.8	son, Simon, who is 17, and he plays for our homeschool basketball league. And there is a coach
1:50.9	who has a very understanding wife, as far as I'm concerned, who keeps scheduling games during
1:57.2	the evening on Valentine's Day evening when, you know, usually if you were going to
2:01.1	have a special dinner, that's when you'd be having it. So we were at a game at 6 p.m. Our super kind
2:05.7	twins Evianola made a special dinner for our whole family. And so we did a family Valentine's
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