In honor of Valentines Day, we held a romantic candelight dinner for six, complete with dimmed lights, floating candles, roses, paper hearts, frozen lasagna, bagged salad, cold bread sticks, and a vacuum cleaner parked within a few feet of our table.
Classical music, chocolate dipped strawberries, Lady and the Tramp on blue ray, and a big lasagna spill on the table completed our fancy evening. Audrey folded the napkins in delicate fans around the forks. We only yelled at each other twice during dinner, and once before, when Will forgot to put the lasagna in while Mom was at the doctor with Olivia, getting an infected toe checked out. Diagnosis: it's infected. Antibiotic and soaking were prescribed. Praying we don't have to go through the drama of removing an ingrown toenail.
But back to the topic at hand.
The first annual Metcalf family Valentines Dinner was a big hit, glitches and all. I think it's going to be our new February 14 tradition. Everybody I love is invited, and I'm already planning next year's menu. The "fancy but frozen" theme went well this year, so for next year, I'm thinking cordon bleu. That might not make such a mess when it gets dumped on the table.
Audrey was mad that the 6th grade didn't get to do a Valentine's party. They did lip sync instead, so I went over to watch her perform. She and her friends did Super Trouper-our theme song!- and they did a fantastic job. Caught it all on video, but I don't have a way to post it, so take my word for it- it was adorable!
All in all, a successful, love-filled Valentines Day for all of us.
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