Valentine's day countdown calendar

This year I decided to introduce a new tradition in our family, a Valentine's day countdown, because only one day to celebrate love is just not enough! Since I am very busy with my little 2 month old baby, and my 2 other little ones, I didn't do anything fancy, I just took an old empty frame, tied some ribbons and cutted 14 hearts which I numberded from 1 to 14 and hanged the hearts on the ribbon with some paper clips, very easy! But if you'd like something more fancy, there is some very good and beautiful ideas I've came accross on the web (my favorite was this one from Secrets of a super mommy) But what's important is not what your countdown calendar looks like, it's what you write behing every hearts. You could decide to write a love note that you could read to your family every morning or, like me, you could write a special activity to do about Valentine's day.
If you want some ideas of what to include in your countdown, here's the list of what's in mine:

1- make a Valentines day craft
2-watch some love movies together eating a special treat
3-bake some heart shape cookies
4-do a Valentines day photo shoot to have some cute pictures of the kids to send to grand-maman et grand-papa
5-make some Valentines card for the people we love
6-make a Valentine scrapbook page with the picture from our photo shoot
7-drink some hot chocolate together around the table and compliment each other
8-make another Valentines day craft to decorate the house
9-prepare a care package for someone we love and go mail it
10-make some cinnamon dough hearts
11-phone everyone we love to tell them how much we care for them, and sing them a love song all the family together
12-play the kindness game (I'll explain it in another post)
13-list all of our own special quality and do a self portrait showing these quality
14- bake a Valentine cake and have a special Valentine dinner together

So we started the countdown yesterday and the children were very happy! This morning the first thing they wanted to do was to look behind the heart number 2 to know what was going to be the special activity for today!

Happy febuary everyone! Let this month be the month of love! ;)