Valentine Cookie Therapy

Today was a hard day. With Valentine’s Day only a couple days away, I am feeling even more deeply the absence of my older two children. With one daughter studying abroad in Spain and another away at a school in Atlanta, I have only my almost seventeen year old son at home. I know Valentine’s Day  is supposed to be a sweetheart day and if my husband were away, I most assuredly would be complaining about his being gone as well. For now it is my girls. We girls just love Valentine’s Day. Let’s face it. It is our day. I have received more Valentine’s gifts from my friends, sisters, and mom in my lifetime than I ever have from a sweetheart. We just seem to know that our hearts need it. We love surprises and being thought of in general and Valentine’s Day seems to bring that home. But my girls are in faraway places, so I decided to try some Valentine cookie therapy on my own. I posted that idea on facebook and almost immediately got a couple great recipes to try from friends. So I did. I think it was helpful, playing the John Mayer genre on Pandora, and dancing in my kitchen.

Making a big mess in the kitchen, even when you are alone, is still very therapeutic especially when it involves lots of powdered sugar and pink icing. I decided to post a few pics from my therapy session. I still miss my girls and I realize that eventually I am going to have to come to terms with this new phase of my life. Yes, in time, I guess I will. Hopefully it won’t be one cookie at a time.  That might bring on a whole new set of problems.:)

I am including a few other heart images I have captured this week as I am learning to play more and more. 🙂

Happy Valentines Day everyone.