Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day, friends and family! I woke up this morning to this gorgeous crown that Steve and Addie made me :) I feel so loved!


I told Addie we could make valentines day cookies, so we headed to Safeway yesterday to get the stuff we needed. I did not anticipate the time it would take to park (since half the spaces are taken up by mountains of snow) and the crowd inside (of people who are trying to re-stock after the snowstorm) so our shopping trip took longer than I thought. You can't tell a toddler that you're going to make cookies and not follow through, so we did it anyway, despite it getting a bit too close to dinner time...

So here's Addie's lesson on baking cookies.

First your nutrition counselor mommy buys a pre-fab, non-organic, refined sugar, artificial color-filled cookie mix because she didn't want to bother baking from scratch because she's 37 weeks pregnant and tired, darnit.

Dump cookie mix into a bowl

Add one egg (pictured). And an obscene amount of butter (not pictured because mommy melted it in the microwave and the bowl was hot, so she wouldn't let me dump it)

Stir and smile a la Vanna White

Then you get to rollll the dough out

And use heart-shaped cookie cutters to cut the dough.
While it bakes, complain "where my special cookie?" over and over and over again while your mom starts dinner amid the cookie trays and general mess made in the kitchen.

Have your daddy very carefully frost the cookies

Then shake...
...shake some sprinkles on.

Contemplate eating them even though mommy desperately wants you to eat dinner first...
...but they look so good.

Mommy loses. :)
Happy Valentines Day, everyone! Here are Valentines day of Addie's past: 2009 and 2008

Snow Ice Cream!

I had heard of snow ice cream but never made it before. Addie and I bundled up to go watch Steve shovel the driveway (again) the other day, but the wind was up, so Addie was not happy. To cheer her up I impulsively said "do you want to make snow ice cream?" The response was enthusiastic and I quickly googled a recipe and breathed a sigh of relief that we had all the ingredients.

In a bowl, you put milk, sugar, and vanilla. We didn't measure, but I think it was about 2/3 cup milk, 2-3 tbsp of brown sugar and a splash of vanilla. Then you stiiiiirrrrrr it up!


Add CLEAN WHITE ;) snow (about 3 cups?)

Take a tentative bite...

Hey, I like it!