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I’m feeling the loooooooove today! I’ve got my red pants on (sweatpants, you know I don’t wear “real” pants), the house is decked out with chocolate and cinnamon hearts and Louman is filled with cookies!
As I’ve mentioned, Valentine’s Day is my favourite day of the year! I’ll be spending it doing what I do best, making balls.
But tonight I am planning a romantic dinner with my lovahhhh. By planning I mean I have yet to think of what I’m going to make and unless I rush to the grocery store post-work, we may be eating lava cake for dinner. I’m okay with that.
More than anything I am excited to be spending Valentine’s Day with C. While we have had V-Day dates in the past, we’ve never been together on the actual holiday.
As requested, here’s our story 🙂
Despite having gone to school together for four years, C and I only met each other on my graduation night. And because life works in the cruelest of ways, I moved to NYC the next day. Maybe not love at first sight, but certainly infatuation. After 5 days together (across a 5 month time-span) I met his parents, day 6 he was my boyfriend and day 10 I was with his family for Christmas. Despite the inconvenience of NYC-San Francisco, NYC-Montreal and Toronto-Montreal, we have found a way to make our relationship work. Finally 2.5 years later we are living in the same city. I’m excited to celebrate this milestone (without any furniture) and how fortunate I am to have found the love of my life.
Now to celebrate my love for all of you I am hosting my first ever link-up! Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you may have noticed that each day this week I posted a different sweet treat to share with your Valentine, whoever they are! And even better, all of them are healthy!
Now I’m passing the torch to you. I am SO excited to see what delicious treats you came up with and who you will be sharing them with. But before I do, let’s recap this week.
On Sunday, we got the ball rolling with some Double Chocolate Cherry Cookies and I introduced you to my most prized possession, my cookie jar named Louman.
Monday was all about breakfast! You didn’t think I’d do a bake-off without including breakfast right? Of course I made my all-time favourite with a twist, Banana Fosters Cinnamon Rolls!
Wednesday I listened to your requests and shared my love to my fellow bloggers with these Coconut Oatmeal Lace Cookies
And on Thursday I took back everything I said about lemon and finished with a bang with these Black Bean Lava Cakes.
Now it’s your turn! You have until Sunday to link-up with your Healthy Valentine’s Day Treats. I cannot wait to check each one of them out!
So excited you and C get to finally be together! Long distance relationships can be so hard.
All these recipes you made this week blew me away! They look so amazing 🙂 I also love seeing everyone else’s recipes
As if sharing all of these tempting recipes all throughout the week hadn’t been sweet enough you chose the truly sweetest ending by sharing the story of how you and C met. You already know I’m a hopeless romantic and this was really the icing on the [Valentine’s Day] cake. Actually, my sister and her now-husband share a similar story of how they met but yours may or may not be even cute [don’t tell her I said that ;)]. Happy Valentine’s Day!
Wow – so many tasty looking things already and still a couple more days for people to add links – can’t wait!
I loved reading your story – so fun and so happy for you that y’all finally are in the same place!!!
I love your love story!! Before our living room furniture showed up in our new house, Ryan and I made a bed on the floor with pillows and blankets. We watched netflix (cause no cable yet) and drank wine out of paper cups. It will forever be one of my favorite memories. Furniture is overrated. The guy is all that matters 🙂 Hope you and C enjoy your first Valentine’s together and make many more happy memories in your new home.
There are so many great treats this week I want them all!! This was a seriously fun challenge to participate in and I’m glad you put a healthy twist on the usual decadence 😉
Annndd I hit enter too soon because I didn’t get to say how excited I am for you to celebrate with C this year (furniture is overrated anyways). Wishing a great night for you guys 😉
Haaaaappy Valentine’s day love!! Hope you guys have a splendid day together! Grant and I were drinking partners all of first year and it was only at the end of the year that we decided maybe we should date. Worked out for us.. :).
What an awesome linkup – again, my job is ruining my life & I have no time to be at home making myself treats. On the bright side, t here’s a potluck at work today, it’s only 9 am and I’ve already ate a jelly filled donut. Today is going to give me diabetes.
Happy Valentine’s Day miss!! So happy for you that you can be with your man on the actual day this year. Long distance is tough, but I think that it makes you quickly realize what you have. Absence really does make the heart grow fonder! Linking up now 🙂
Hehehe I said “go” instead of “grow” and tried to fix it before it posted… whoopsies
Happy Valentine’s Day miss!! So happy for you that you can be with your man on the actual day this year. Long distance is tough, but I think that it makes you quickly realize what you have. Absence really does make the heart go fonder! Linking up now 🙂
Oooo so much sweet goodness— including the story about how you met the love of your life! Now I’m going to go try making one of these goodies for MY Valentines….my ‘rents. Guatever, I love them.