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My Funny Valentine

I know it’s late in the day for a Valentine post. In retrospect, I probably should have written a Valentine post last night but here you have it. While reading the morning paper I came across the weather section and have realized that a cold front is coming through tonight. Which means it will be too cold to start my vegetable garden this weekend. So much for planning. Texas weather has a way of doing this to you. You get all excited because it’s warm and spring-like outside. The birds are chirping and there are beautiful blue skies… then all of a sudden you wake up and it’s 40 degrees. That’s Texas for you, one day it’s 80, the next it’s 20. Go figure.

Realizing it was the last day of spring for a few days we took full advantage and made our way outside. But first, there was some dressing up.

Then some mama approved attire to venture outside. Now that Keegan is comfortable walking, he has a way of just leaving. I’ll turn around and he’s headed down the street or up the hill around to the front yard. Today he was walking down the street and as I was calling him back Makena was yelling to me ‘he’s going to the beach mommy.’ Well, he was headed in the direction of the lake.

After finally getting them both in the back yard, I took a little time for myself. All you need on a sunny afternoon is a blanket and a book. Voila! I think I need a bigger blanket. Another thing to put on my crafting to do list.

Nap time means mama time and today I made Chocolate-Peanut Butter Ganache Heart Cakes. I bought this silicone heart shaped mini-cake pan last year at Williams Sonoma for .99 cents. Marked down from $22 so I would say that’s a pretty good deal. It pays to shop the sale table! However, it pays to use your brain if you are going to leave the cakes out and the dog inside while you go out to eat. We got home and one cake was missing. Doh. At least she didn’t eat all of them. That would have been a costly vet visit and one unhappy mama.