Valenti Day

BFam and I aren’t big on Valentine’s Day. You’d figure someone as heartwarmingly loving toward Christmas as I am, would have a greater fondness of the holiday for lovers.

Then you’ll realize I just hurled because I said “lovers”. And now I feel all dirty. Thanks a lot.

So surprise when Mooter, the anti-me, had herself a little countdown for the day. I could have easily sat her down and explained to her the falsehoods and sheer idiocy behind such a farse, but I am constantly reminding myself that she’s eight. And I am an old, bitter thirty two-year-old.

Feh.

And when you’re as wide-eyed and bushy tailed as my endearing, bleeding heart daughter, you get things like this:



Then you feel like this:

So, you know. There’s that.

To show my allegiance to the can’t-beat-’em-join-’em brigade, I did things for my daughters (and husband) I am not proud of.


I baked.

What’s the big deal, you say? If you knew me, you’d know this is an extremely big deal. I don’t bake. I don’t cook. Not to say that I can’t. I can. I’m not too shabby at either. Even better, I love food. I think it’s comforting and sentimental and elevating. Yes, I’m still talking about food. But the work. The slaving. The heat of the stove. The standing. The gnashing of teeth. It’s too much. It’s enough to disprove my love of food.

Then I saw a recipe that spoke to me.


Lucky for my children, it spoke to them, too.

Oh. Oh, my word.

This is… oh.

I feel so dirty. This is not fit for little people. Cover their eyes.

The eating of the cupcake should have been outlawed in several states.

I’m not a foodblogger. The thought of cooking alone sends me into fits of rage. I couldn’t imagine mustering enough patience sitting through shot after shot after shot after shot of the cooking. And the raging. Oh, the raging. It wouldn’t be pretty. And no one would follow it because I’d be too busy cursing and throwing things. God bless those who do it and do it well, but…

It ain’t me.

[The recipe that spoke to me: Life By Chocolate from The Pioneer Woman]