Valentine's Day

We had a perfectly perfect Valentine's Day this year. Well almost perfectly perfect.

I woke up with a runny nose thanks to a cold that I seem to have had forever. I worked my way steadily through most of a box of tissues before I started feeling better. Then we ran to the store to pick up stuff for dinner and spent the rest of the day being sort of lazy and not leaving the house.

By sort of lazy, I actually mean that we made ravioli. It wasn't difficult, but it took a while. Mostly because you can only work with so much of the dough at once. So you have to go through all the steps of rolling out the dough, spooning in the filling, and cutting and smushing together the ravioli a whole bunch. We also didn't have a special stamp or cutter, which may have made the whole process go a little faster.

I also made a different, and completely superior, tomato sauce from scratch. It was beyond easy (throw everything in the pot and let it simmer for 45 minutes) and I'm looking forward to making it again.

We played games and watched tv and I finished my book and napped. And then it snowed at exactly the right time to walk Kina through the snow. I love walking Kina through the falling snow, partly because she loves it even more than I do and partly because the ambient light gets reflected enough that I don't need a flashlight. Also I don't need to towel her off afterwards, like I do when it's rainy or muddy (most of Winter and Spring).

It was a great day overall and I'm glad we decided to mostly stay put in the house.