Now that we have kids, Valentine's Day isn't really as much of a romantic holiday, though we do exchange cards. But it's more of a day celebrating family love as well. We were never super into it anyway, but finding child care and then spending a lot of money on dinner in over-crowded restaurants just isn't our scene so we prefer to stay at home and do a date night later in the month. So we celebrated today at home and started our festivities with treats (fruit gummies for the kids, Nerds for the grownups)
Then we had our kid-friendly dinner of heart-shaped pizza and garlic rolls and red-beet hummus with pita chips. Tomorrow we are having our more grown-up menu of steaks, blackberry salad with goat cheese, and risotto, but we started with the heart-shaped stuff first.
For dessert, I made red velvet ice cream sandwiches and I did them in heart-shapes. I had some store-bought raspberry sherbet leftover from forever ago, so we also had one raspberry one. It was nowhere near as good, but somewhat less stainy so I gave it to the kids.
They aren't ice cream connoisseurs, so they loved it even though it wasn't as good as the red velvet.
We finished off the evening with cards and a new Veggie Tales. The girls aren't really old enough to appreciate cards, but Joshua is and he really loved the robot card that lights up that Jason got him. He didn't really understand the concept of showing the card to the camera, so this is the best we got. Though it wasn't super romantic, it was a good and happy day and we had fun.
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