I’m a little obsessed with pre-sliced frozen holiday sugar cookies… they’re just so easy, tasty and cute!  They used to have three different holiday designs for the whole year, and now they’ve caught on and made a ton, for every holiday.  I’m surprised they didn’t have Martin Luther King Jr. ones.  The sad thing is, I will buy any new holiday design they come up with! I’ve shared my love of these cookies with Bobo, and HE loves them because these are one thing that he can ‘make’ all by himself!  He gets so excited when he sees these because…

Homemade Oreo Truffles Instead of buying people chocolates this year I made some Oreo truffles, after seeing them on Bakerella’s website. They looked SO good I had to make them. I kind of winged the recipe, and since I was crushing the cookies by hand ended up adding some heavy cream to make them easier to crush – which I wouldn’t do again, they came out kind of mushy. Here is what I came up with after mushing up about 3/4 a package of Oreos, a big pour of heavy cream, and four ounces of cream cheese with a potato…

We got some pretty flowers for Valentine’s Day (and a balloon for Arin). They smell even better than they look, the whole house smells like sweet roses. Almost like having spring in the here after all! I’ve decided I really love mixed bouquets. The Gerber daisies are so fresh looking! And here’s Arin with his ‘boon’, momentarily distracted from trying to get more chocolate…

Everyone in my family had a nice Valentine’s Day planned. Mom and Carl went down to the Cape, Julie and Lauren went down to stay in Provincetown, Arin ate a TON of chocolate, and me… well, this about sums it up: I got to spend the day cleaning toilets, doing laundry, dusting icky stuff and finally, cooking a big dinner. And I had a monster pile of pots and pans waiting for me bright and early this morning. Oh well, at least there are tons of yummy treats hanging around the house for me to feel better with! I did…

This year Arin will be big enough to appreciate Valentine’s Day for what it really means… chocolate. He’s obsessed already, I can already imagine what a great day he’ll have with a whole bunch of treats to sample. This is from my birthday breakfast that Julie and Lauren made… but it gets the idea across. Someone small and sweet stole my heart… and then ate it messily.