How Was Your Valentine's Day?

So how was your Valentine's Day on Monday? Were you overwhelmed with great gifts and treats from the one you love and appreciate most; - Or, did you get love tokens from a lot admirers and close friends and relatives?

Perhaps, like me, that is all backwards. We focus on showing love and blessing those we care about and don't even really expect anything from anyone else. I generally get my pleasure on Valentine's Day from plannning and giving treats to just a few close friends... usually though, only when I expect to be seeing them. If I were to go through my whole list of friends - I would have to be super busy for at least 2-3 weeks... much like what I do with my Christmas mail in December.

One of the two authorized church women who look after my friend who is in Paliative care at St. Paul's hospital, had emailed me well in advance suggesting that friends send their valentines or even just text greetings in emails and she would then deliver them all at once on Valentine's day.

Well, I wanted to contribute, but I usually craft my own cards, and I simply could not come up with a good idea in the midst of all the other things I had going on in my business agenda (which, I as I told you last week, was interrupted twice!)

I'd found a recipe on Youtube that I was sure would go over very well with my dying friend, and would be very easy for her to eat, without her dentures. So I squeezed in time to make a batch. I had not got all the instructions right, so it failed. (Tho' I could spoon up the failure and enjoy the taste myself.) I baked the zucchini Chocolate cake, and then on Saturday night made yet another batch of the orange pudding like heart-shaped candies. (I'd found a similar but better recipe). Only I forgot to oil the molds, so they had to be scraped out of the molds with a small teaspoon, and then of course, lost their shape for the final step of baking so they would get a golden skin around them, making them easy to pick up with the fingers.

I had planned to drop them off at the home of the woman who was organizing this, but obviously, I did not have time to try again. Except perhaps in the future.

So I resigned myself to sending a lovely short video Valentine's card from the jacquielawson.com site where I have a membership. My friend is an artist and I knew she would enjoy watching the 3 pretty hearts being put together, and then the lid coming off of the 3rd one, revealing a lovely collection of chocolate concoctions!

Incidentally, she emailed me last week to say that her Mum passed away of a heart attack last Wed. and they are trying to organize a small funeral for her. I'm waiting to hear when that will be and where, as I'd like to be there for my friend's sake. I am not sure if they will be able to take my friend out of hospital for this funeral - but I imagine they will try.

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