Valentine's

 

Cookies are one of my favorite "love languages." I have lots of nostalgic memories of people feeding me cookies- friends showing up on my doorstep with chewy treats, baking with my grandma and such. As a kid my mom celebrated holidays with soft, perfectly crafted, sugar cookies, using a recipe with a secret ingredient and lots of love.  Now I'm not much of a baker- my lase-fair method of following directions gets in the way. But rarely do I let a holiday pass without taking out my cookie cutters. These hearts were made for a few friends and Liam's class party.

I'm a big believer in Valentines Day.  I think it's good for the soul.  It's nice to have one happy-go- lucky day in the dead of winter where people go around doing fanciful, inconsequential but nice,  things for each other.

 Elsie recieved pink paints for Valentines Day, Liam got a Ninja Turtle movie. Elsie was happy to wake up to a day dedicated to pink- her pink painted hearts were taped to the walls, her food was pink, her cards were pink. It was fun to see Liam labeling his class valentines and putting them into piles of those who he thought liked Kung Fu Panda cards and those who would find them distastefully violent (mainly the girls) and needed an alternate.

 

 milk goatee