The kids woke up to cards, and went to school armed with goodies to share.
Last year I made a loaf of bread in the shape of a heart for my goddaughter. It was ridiculous, but fun. This year, I mixed up some dough and experimented with the shaping and scoring.
As soon as I had scored the loaves, I knew last years’ idea fitted the theme a wee bit better.
We couldn’t quite figure out what this loaf looked like…
But this one certainly had a wide and somewhat evil grin! My, my. Not really the look I was going for.
So, I doubled up my baking efforts and churned out some chocolate shortbread cookies. One of my favorite recipes, (and destined for the recipe tab at some point,) I knew these would make every Valentine celebrator love me just a little bit more!
And then came the giving. John Ronan is obsessed with the fact that the dentist told him that gummy bears are much better for your teeth than lollipops. (He was a lollipop aficionado, and that landed him in cavity land.) So we loaded up on gummy bears and hit the neighborhood!
Isn’t that the cutest little bag? John Ronan “borrowed” it, since it’s destined for a niece’s birthday. (Ssshhh, don’t tell!)
Almost no one was home. But did that deter us Working-on-Being-Better-Giver Givers?!
We dropped packets in the oddest places and thought it was fun that most of our neighbors wouldn’t even know where the treats had come from. (I really wanted to write from whence the treats had come--isn’t that fun? but a little too Downton Abbeyish for this blog…)
Almost lastly, we took one of the odd-shaped loaves of bread–plus more packets of gummy bears– to the swim instructors to eat in between lessons. (John Ronan is finally water safe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
And lastly, my parents showed up on the front doorstep with a BOX full of bread from my awesome baker brothers (and chocolate, of course).
Soup on the stove, and five loaves of bread in the kitchen, we held my parents prisoners for the evening to help us eat all the goodies,
and share the love!
Share :: Love.
Hope you had a lovely Valentine’s Day, my friends!
The Woman and the Wheat 
PLEASE tell me when you post the recipe for the chocolate shortbread cookies, they are absolutely my favorite cookie in the entire world but so hard to find!