If you haven't gotten them yet, it may already be too late. Valentines. And not for your sweetheart, not for your crush. For the 20 or likely many more small strangers in your child's class.
Gone are the days of cutting hearts from red construction paper and sending kids off with a shoebox to collect equally rudimentary holiday cards from classmates. Class valentines are now an expensive, elaborate and competitive business. And the burden of obtaining valentines and making them just right, like most things relating at all to parenthood, falls squarely upon moms.
