Mornin’!
I hope this finds you well-recovered from a lovely Valentine’s Day… and if I doesn’t, maybe he’ll do better next year. I’m dying to share about my Valentine’s Day but I fear someone will think I’m ungrateful for the kindness, love, and generosity that my husband extended to me. Ok… I’ll share {with his permission}. I really think there’s no better, more romantic way to tell your wife that you love her than to send her a basket of cheese & sausage. In his defense, I do like cheese and I do like sausage but I’m still trying to figure out what it is about me that lead him to believe this would be the most appropriate gift to send. He happened to be away on Valentine’s Day so I called him when I received “the basket”… “Oh honey, you shouldn’t have… the cheese and sausage, it’s so wonderful, looks delicious and… I can’t wait to eat it all. {pause} Did you really mean to buy me a basket of sausage & cheese…it was card-less and maybe intended for someone else?” It was no mistake and all sarcasm aside, it was thoughtful of him to think of me, to go to the trouble of purchasing my Valentine and arranging for it’s delivery by his father who said upon delivering it, “Well, I’ve never seen a Valentine quite like this before!” Justin, I’ll be sure to save you a few bites of each cheese log and sausage link, and you’re right, I have always said, “don’t waste money on flowers“. I must confess, I’m not much a hopeless romantic myself, he received socks & steel cut oatmeal for Valentine’s Day… I believe the romantic side of our marriage needs some sort of intervention! In reality, I’m just thankful to know, without a doubt, that he loves me! And at least I got something, right!? And, if anything, we’ve had several really good, hard belly laughs about it. Next year, early February, would someone remind me to write a post just for men, full of suggestions of things that women would love for Valentine’s Day?
Now moving on to the children and their Valentines… we {well, really I} decided we’d do a very budget friendly Valentine this year. Inspired by beautiful cookies I saw on foodgawker, we made cookies using Bakers Royale sugar cookie recipe and completely flooded them with royal icing {thinned to pouring consistency} from Amanda at I Am Baker. It was messy and fun! Once they dried {overnight because my icing was poured but still thick & opaque} we tucked each one into a wax paper envelope that the girls helped me make Saturday morning; they did the folding, I did the sewing. And this is how it all unfolded…
Be back soon!
