Wow we had a fun filled day and our bellies are full! The morning started with the opening of valentine boxes which were full of chocolates, hearts, love notes, and even new umbrellas. Then it was strawberries and whipped cream for breakfast and of course a few chocolates too. Papa and I found a valentine box that I had made for him many, many moons ago. Over the past 18 years he has filled it with love notes, movie and museum tickets, playbills, train tickets, letters and more. It was so fun looking through it all together today. And the girls had fun listening to stories of our past of courting and falling in love. After the morning festivities, it was off to the great outdoors (well just our backyard) to make a snow family complete with rosy red cheeks. When my toes were numb, indoors I went to start a dinner of homemade macaroni and cheese (recipe from here ) , and collards greens with stewed tomatoes. We still found room for chocolate fondue with fruit for dessert and to top it off since today also celebrates the Chinese new year we celebrated with some fortune cookies. While were we out building in the snow Hannah turned to me and said “Mama this is the nicest Valentines Day ever.” I couldn’t have agreed more. Hope you all had a day full of love and of course a little chocolate too. xo