went out in the very cold weather this morning and was nearly blown into a fence… put on my warmest jacket but didn’t realize that the hood wasn’t attached… yikes…
spent the remainder of the day remembering my beloved and how we enjoyed this particular holiday… found this photo from our last Valentine’s Day…
besides the rose, he gave me a beautiful purple jacket which I put on this morning;-)…
I’d had a conversation with a friend about how great my sugar cookies tasted… I’ve made thousands of them over the years, mainly when the girls were in school… I would produce cookies for their classrooms for each and every holiday that occurred…
she suggested I might like to make some for Valentine‘s Day;-)… and also volunteered to lend me a heart-shaped cookie cutter…
I thought I had one so didn’t take her up on the offer…
on Sunday I decided to make them and discovered that I did not have the appropriate cutter…
I went online, found a few different sized heart templates and made a cardboard heart-shaped template…
then I made the recipe and laughed throughout the whole process because it didn’t seem familiar at all…
it took a while as I used a knife to outline each one, but they came out pretty good…
I’d given away all the food colouring and sprinkles a while ago, thinking I wouldn’t need them…
the cookies look rather plain… but taste delicious…
then I had some fun packaging them up for a few gifts…
made a Valentine’s Day dinner for my daughter and grandsons… son-in-law was working so he missed out, although he doesn’t love lobster the way the rest of us do…
when the kids arrived, my daughter took me over to the store to pick up the steak for our dinner…
then she went out and barbecued the steak and lobster… it was delicious…
one of the giggles we always have around lobster has to do with the butter warmers…
we’ve had ours for around forty years…
no matter which one she has my daughter’s is never hot enough… our current joke is that dad keeps blowing on it and cooling it down…
here she is trying to get hers burning stronger as we sat down to our delicious dinner… everyone else had very hot bubbling butter, lol…
was fun to set the table with a Valentine theme… spent some time at Dollarama picking up a few items, including some little plastic hearts filled with tiny heart candies, which were very popular…
I’d made some heart shaped red berry muffins which were also a hit…
little things like the warmers make me feel my beloved is at the dinner table with us… if he had been here, there would have been flowers on the table as well…
I have celebrated all the special days of the year forever and I love doing that… miss my beloved who also enjoyed holidays, particularly Valentine’s Day… he always made sure that both of the girls and I got roses… I often wear the jacket that he gave me on our last Valentine’s day…
had roses delivered to the office for my colleagues…
put them out so everyone could choose one… did it yesterday as four of them were not in today…
I enjoy surprising people with treats and they are an amazing group of individuals so it makes me very happy to show them how special each of them is…
it is always such fun to see which one each person chooses… makes me happy…
today after lunch when I got back to the office from yoga there was a card and gift on my desk…
the card was filled with lovely expressions of thanks from all my colleagues, and a gift certificate to Thermea…
what a wonderful surprise… brought me to tears… as I said, a special group of individuals…
up early to head to the clinic for an A1C blood test… see the doctor next week…
always park a ways from the clinic and walk to get a bit more exercise… the sidewalk was terribly slippery… on my way back, sadly an hour later, I chose the road as a safer way to travel…
after the test I went to the Assiniboine hotel for breakfast, as I’d been fasting…
put on those big girl pants and ate on my own…
did a bit of shopping and picked up valentine treats for the boys and even mini eggs for Easter…
now to put them in a safe place that I will remember on the 14th, lol…
also picked up a couple of tops… lots of black and white out there, but no purple…
had a nap and went to a gathering for supper and the evening… lovely dinner and interesting conversation with some very special women… we were all careful as we arrived and departed to watch our footing so there wouldn’t be any falls… lots of ice under the light dusting of snow…
hard day… been on the verge of tears for much of it…
George was very romantic… he always brought me flowers and chocolate on Valentine’s day…
I’ve been thinking back to our last Valentine’s Day… he had picked up a purple jacket that I’d seen at Rona and had been coveting… a single rose, cinnamon heart candies and a mushy card finished up the gift… it was a work day and he had it all organized in the kitchen when I came downstairs…
I keep thinking it will get easier, but not so much today…
for the last two years I have sent flowers to the girls because he always made sure they had a rose that day… last year I cried throughout the whole ordering process… this year I didn’t have any problem making the calls… guess that’s good, lol…
had a quiet day… did a few chores around the house and watched a number of PVRed shows…
had a lovely chocolate strawberry with a cup of tea this afternoon as a treat…
made it through the day and looking forward to a more positive frame of mind tomorrow…
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