ok, valentinve’s day isn’t ALL about the chocolate…kevin also got me a beautiful bouquet of a dozen roses, plus a wonderful print of a sweet “mutts” comic strip, and a couple of cards, one of which is an hilarious pig with wings singing and flapping his wings…
but it is a lot about the chocolate.
because we’ve been married for five valentines now, he knows to buy me a decent-sized box, not one of those dinky ones with just four chocolates, but not a huge one, either, because I WILL EAT IT ALL RIGHT AWAY.
i’m exaggerating, of course, i don’t eat them all at once. there were actually a few left yesterday, which i polished off before five o’clock but then was despondent that i hadn’t save myself at least one for after dinner.
they were delicious. i could eat a lot of chocolate every single day. luckily there isn’t usually much or any around the house. i am always baffled by people who might have some lying around, like candies in bowls…how do they do that? at the grocery store at day-after sales, like valentine’s day, xmas, easter, etc, i’ve certainly managed to talk myself into getting the half-priced candy JUST TO HAVE AROUND. for what, really, but me???
i didn’t succumb yesterday, partly because i was at the store with mom which made me feel guilty about buying the chocolate. she wouldn’t have cared, of course, but she has an infinite amount more of chocolate willpower than me. i get that from dad – i bought them some chocolates and gave them to them when they were here on valentine’s day, and dad started opening them and shoving them into his mouth as fast as he could, because, of course, they were quite delicious. those little lindt truffles wrapped in foil.
mom was sitting across the living room from him and said, “what are you eating?”
“Nothing,” said dad, his mouth stuffed with chocolate.
the other morning, chester was so starving that he resorted to eating mollie’s food. kevin took this picture; i can’t imagine how upset mollie must have been about somebody eating her precious food. kind of like me if somebody eats my chocolate, only more so.
when i was sitting in the bedroom the other day, lester climbed into the bed and laid down right on the pillow so i had to cover him with my favorite cupcake pajames.
and on valentine’s day, he cosied up next to the cute little critter i bought for kevin. once again, though, i don’t understand the comfort of lying on top of the table, but eventually kevin put a blanket on top of him and there he stayed for quite a while.
i hope your valentine’s day was chocolate-filled, and if not, i hope you got some HALF-OFF VALENTINE’S CANDY! mmmmmmm….maybe it’s not too late to get some….maybe there’s still a little good chocolate left and it’s not all the yucky, pointless hard candy…
ok then,
mrs. hughes.