valentine's day with a baby (franz's first valentine's day).

On the night of Valentine's Day last week, Zac picked up some Thai take out on his way home from work, and we ate it on our living room floor (a tradition we started last year) with our baby boy who ate along with us! I made chocolate truffles earlier that day while Franz napped, and we ate those for dessert while trying our hardest to make Franz laugh! That boy is full of smiles, but it takes something big to make him laugh. 

I don't think we'll ever go out on Valentine's Day. Crowds of people at restaurants and movies sound not-so-fun to me and Zac, so stay home every year we will. It's quite perfect, if you ask me.

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valentine's day.

We spent most of Valentine's Day at work, where  a choir of high school girls came and sung to one of my co-workers. After work, while Zac was still in class, he remotely logged into our computer and left me a little Valentine on the desktop. Not to mention the Valentine he left on the box of chocolates! This man is good to me. 

When he got home, we spent the night eating a candlelit dinner of Chinese takeout on a blanket on our living room floor while listening to Bon Iver in the record player, and watched Letters to Juliet. Later, we ate about half of the box of chocolates (I told Zac all I wanted was a box of chocolates to share).Very low key, exactly how I like it. 

While eating dinner, we were trying to remember what we did for Valentine's Day last year. The only thing we could remember was watching The Notebook. And since I didn't blog about it, we have no reminders. I'm still racking my brain.

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happy hearts day!

<3

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valentine hearts.

So maybe we still have our Christmas tree up in the middle of January, and maybe I started cutting out paper hearts tonight for Valentine's Day in the free time I have while Zac's in class. And maybe I bought lots of Valentine's Day sprinkles. What can I say? I'm excited. A day dedicated all to love? Although it's not my very favorite holiday, it's right up there with Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

I plan on decorating my apartment with pink and red hearts, and baking pink cookies and cupcakes... right after I take the Christmas tree down.

I'm so excited for heart day!

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