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THE SONG GIRLS TAKE VALENTINEvery seriously A valentine is humble and sweet and sincere in its old-fashionedness, and as such, homemade is best I have plenty of raw , but in addition I’ve saved snippets of lace and ribbon and doilies I have a tin with little beads and pearls and rhinestones in it; I have antiquey rubber stamps, too--a Cupid, hearts of all kinds, flowers

Historically, Daddy gets one valentine froot will be sending one of her own Josh will get one too, though I let Kitty take the lead on it and n my name under hers

I’ve spent the better part of the afternoon on Peter’s It’s a white heart, edged in white lace In the center I’ve stitched YOU’RE MINE, PETER K in pink string I knoill ; it doesn’t take itself too seriously, es the day and the fact that we, Peter Kavinsky and Lara Jean Song Covey, are in a relationship I was going toand beaded and lacy, but Kitty said it would be a bit much

"Don’t use all my pearls," I tell Kitty "It’s takenthem if you don’t use them? All that work so they can just live in a little tin box where no one can even see theuess," I say, because she does have a point "I’, only put pearls on the valentines of the people you really like"

"What about the purple rhinestones?"

"Use as many of those as you want," I say in a benevolent tone, hbor The purple rhinestones don’t go withfor a Victorian look, and purple rhinestones arethat to Kitty Kitty’s temperament is such that when she knows you don’t rows suspicious of it too and the appeal is lost to her For a long time I had her convinced that raisins were my absolute favorite, and she must never ever eat more than her share, when in actuality I hate raisins and was grateful so theular kid in kindergarten

I’ white bric-a-brac around a heart as I wonder aloud, "Should we do a special breakfast for Daddy? We could buy one of those juicers at the rapefruit juice And I think I saw heart waffle rapefruit," Kitty says "And we barely use our regular waffle maker as it is How about we just cut the waffle into the shape of a heart instead?"

"That would look so cheap," I scoff But she’s right There’s no sense in buying so we’d only ever use once a year, even if it only costs 1999 As Kitty gets older, I see that she is far ot than me

But then she says, "What if we use our cookie cutter to make heart-shaped pancakes instead? And put in red food coloring?"

I beaot a little bit of me in her after all