Valentine's Day!

Here I am at 38 weeks (and 5 days) on Valentine's Day.

We had just returned from a yummy Valentine's Day dinner at a local Italian place, Francesca's Fiore.  Mmm, raviolis and tiramisu!  All that food must be why my stomach is so big!  (Hahahaha! I crack myself up!)

We're not big Valentine's Day people.  Usually we try to do dinner and cards, maybe a little candy.  Depending on schedules, dinner may not even be on the actual day.  We're happy with something low key and we stuck with that this year.

After a hiatus of a few years, Jeff returned to the tradition of giving me a "handmade" (put together on the computer) card.  It can be a time consuming process.  In previous years, the business of being a doctor kept him a little too busy, but this year a well timed day off worked in my benefit.  Usually there's a little poem, with a combo of funny and sweet that you can't help but love.  And this year's card did not disappoint.  I did try to respond in kind with a homemade card of my own.  My poetry skills just aren't at his level, so it was a little more prose.  And I gave him some Reese's peanut butter hearts.  All the holiday shaped Reese's (hearts, Christmas trees, pumpkins, easter eggs) have a different peanut butter to chocolate ratio that we both appreciate.  He even shared a bite with me!  It must be love!

So there you have it.  Our last Valentine's Day as just the two of us.  Next year we'll have a little addition to dress up in pink and red and hype up on goodies.  Or maybe foist off on some relatives to head off to dinner by ourselves.  Or both.  Yes, I like that plan.  Hype her up on sugar and then ship her off to grandma/grandpa or an aunt/uncle.