Valentine's Day 2011

We were ambitious this year. We decorated red and pink paper bags, and then filled them with truffles, peanut butter kiss cookies, pink-frosted chocolate cookie hearts, and sprinkled sugar cookie hearts. We just finished delivering the bags to every house in the neighborhood. It was lots of fun, but also lots of work over the last week.

I like to think the girls learn a lot doing these projects (the measuring, baking, organizing, counting, writing, etc...), but even more importantly, they seem to be learning that it can be fun not just to receive gifts, but also to give them.

We also made sugar cookies together, both white and chocolate, and we frosted the chocolate ones and put sprinkles in the white ones.

Then they decorated bags and we delivered them.