Two of my nieces couldn't make it for Christmas cookie baking day when it was rescheduled due to snow (oh all right, it was my niece and great-niece; I'm old) so we made Valentine's Day cookies yesterday instead. The cookies in my drawing are ballet dancing in honor of the fact that my great-niece Lizzie (age 5) and I dance at the same ballet school - or as Lizzie put it "You and me are both a ballerina."We did all the things you might expect: wore Disney Princess crowns, listened to Sinatra (Lizzie is also a fan), and baked several batches of cookies. My niece Katie took video footage in which Lizzie did a lot of funny things and I am a disembodied voice in the background like Charlie Brown's teacher. I made us lunch and dinner. We ate slightly more cookie dough than I believe the Surgeon General recommends.
It was a lot of fun, but now there is only one thing Auntie Maria wants for Valentine's Day: a nap.
Happy Valentine's Day to you and yours. Celebrate it any way you please.
This may be my favorite illustration of all!! :)
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