Valentine's

In Texas, our Valentine's tradition has always been for Dan to pick up a box of chocolate-covered strawberries from Lammes Candies - a local candy store in Round Rock that only sold those on the 13th and 14th of February. This year, I decided that I would do some detective work and find a place where we could get our Valentine's fix in our new corner of the country. I found a chain that has a store in Corning and took the boys out on Friday morning to go pick up a "bouquet" of 24 chocolate-dipped strawberries. I told Dan that the boys and I had gone out, but not what we had done... although he was pretty sure what I had been up to. It didn't matter to me at all that I was the one buying the gift this year and not Dan. After all, we'll always have our strawberries to eat either way! And our Valentine's Day was perfectly complete!