"The Meal"

So we've now had 8 Valentine's Dinners together (me and Gage, not me and you) and we've had the same meal at each one. It's a silly tradition of ours. When V-Day came around, we'd been dating for only 12 days. It would have been weird to do something "really mushy," since we just weren't to that stage yet. Gage and his roomate, Patrick, asked me one day what Patrick should get his girlfriend for V-Day. I was, as we have all found out, a bit silly in those days and went on about how a slinky is the best gift for reasons xyz, etc... It turns out they were asking for Gage. He got me a slinky. I gave him a totally silly corny big heart that I'd written a message on and glued conversation hearts to for parts of the message (kind of like a candy bar poster) We still have these in a box (what I call my "shoebox of lies" for all you BNL fans) Anyway, the meal: Gage said come over at 6 and I'll feed you dinner. I (for some reason) crimped my hair (all of it!) which made it HUGE. I wore a red turtleneck sweater and gray pants of my roomate's. He made me a caesar salad, steak kabobs with peppers and red onion, baked potatoes, orange juice, and no-bake cheesecake. We have deviated with the dessert a few times, but none of the rest. This year's dessert was heart shaped brownies. The best was our second V-day when we lived upstairs from the Book Table in Logan and the only place to grill was out on a fire escape in the snow. That's Love.

This year I also decided to make a holidayish lunch for the boys' benefit. I made heart shaped sandwiches and bananas and cookies and they ate on the cute plates auntie And got them.

The boys loved their little gifts, it was the best $4 I've spent in a while!
This is a quilt panel I finished up for Valentines this year.