Happy "Love" Day

This year for Valentine's Day I thought we would have a special supper!!  We invited Grandma Puzey over to help us celebrate!  So I made heart shaped pancakes (I desperately tried to find the "big" heart shaped cookie cutters I had, but I am thinking they didn't fit in my cake decorating drawer in a special compartment for my cookie cutters, so I got rid of them!). Anyway, I improvised by putting the batter on the griddle in a heart shape, and to my complete and utter surprise, it worked!!  I also cut the strawberries to look like hearts (all I did for that was cut the stem off in a triangle type shape and then sliced the strawberries, and again to my surprise it worked!).  It truly is amazing the things I can come up with in the wee hours of the morning while I am laying wide awake totally annoyed because beside me Jared and Calum seem to be having a glorious and undisturbed sleep!!

I also made pink whipped cream and pink lemonade, and I cut the butter with a heart shaped cookie cutter!  And to complete the Valentine's theme I placed the flower Emry got from the School Council in the middle of the table!  When we sat down to eat all my effort was not for not!! Calum took one look at the pancakes and said, "they are heart pancakes for Valentine's!"  And then he gave me a great big hug!!  He also noticed the pink whipped cream!  It was fun to prepare and even more fun to eat!  We don't always have whipped cream and strawberries with our pancakes, but I really love them that way and so does Jared, but it only took him 35 years to actually give them a try!!

At Emry's Activity Day's they made heart shaped sugar cookies and decorated them and then put them in a homemade box.  She gave each of us one after supper!  They were really yummy and finished our "love"-ly Valentine's dinner off perfectly!   Myrna gave each of the kids a little baggie full of chocolate, and as we were getting the kids ready for bed Calum says, "Look Dad, these are the candies Grandma gave me because she loves me!"  He is really quite a tender hearted little guy, I love him so much!

It was a wonderful Valentine's Day and I wouldn't have changed one minute of it for anything!  I love my little family so much and I am so thankful we live so close to Myrna so we can call her half an hour before supper and ask her to come over and eat with us!  Well, I think there is one thing I would change...I would change the fact that I am sitting here writing this while Jared is out trying to get the water working for the cows!!  I would much rather be cuddled into him while watching a sappy movie!!

I always scoffed at others when they called it Happy Love Day, but it truly is a wonderful day of love!!  I think I have been converted to calling it Love Day, so much more fitting!!

So, Happy Love Day to all my family and friends!