So, I totally predicted this would happen.
This morning we were rushing around getting the Captain ready for school. With six minutes left before he had to be putting on his snow pants, I asked him to go upstairs and get his valentines out of his bedside table.
And they were no longer there.
The Captain freely admitted that he had moved them. But he couldn’t remember where his new hiding place was.
He thought they were most definitely probably could be in the kitchen. So we looked in every cupboard, every drawer, every cereal box.
Then we moved on and checked every dresser, every couch cushion, every toy box in the house. No dice.
So, with two minutes remaining before he had to leave, I got out the package of unused valentines. He has a small class, so luckily there were enough Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle valentines left over for almost every one in the class. Gal Smiley kindly donated one of her unused Pretty Pony valentines to make up the balance. Fifteen Ninja Turtles (“Give ’em Shell! It’s Valentine’s Day!”) and one Pretty Pony (“Wishing you a rainbow day!”) makes for quite a juxtaposition.
I hurriedly marked them all as being from the Captain while got him dressed for school. Then we sent him off with the new bag in his backpack.
And he came home with them all, undistributed. Every one, even the Pony, accounted for.
We quizzed him about this but we’re not sure what happened. In the frenzy and joy of getting other valentines, he can’t seem to remember if he gave any out or not. But he does seem to think that he had one for his French teacher.
So, near as we can figure out, this is what really happened. Gal Smiley had to take her valentines to school yesterday, because she only goes to preschool on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. When the Captain saw her getting her package out, he ran to his secret hiding place and got his out too, and put them in his backpack. Then, when his teacher checked his backpack yesterday for messages from home, she found the valentines, assumed we had sent them, and took them out to save them for today. Then today, she gave him the original pack to hand out.
We think.
In sweeter news, the kids and I made these beauties yesterday:
They’re pretty good at smoothing over any valentine hiccups, let me tell you.
TurtleHead 
Ooo ooo ooo! I want a cookie! I want a cookie!
Yeah yeah, Valentines, wacky kids, all very interesting.
Now tell me more about these fucking cookies, please! What are they? Are they as delicious as they look? I can haz recipe?
Oh my God, they are seriously little slices of heaven. They’re really big — about 3 inches in diameter — so just one qualifies as an entire dessert.
Recipe:
Beat together 3/4 cup superfine sugar (sometimes labelled fruit sugar in the baking aisle) and 2 sticks (1 cup) butter.
Add one egg yolk (I use an egg replacer – white powder you mix with water – since the Captain is allergic) and 2 tsp vanilla extract; beat until smooth.
Add 1/2 tsp salt and 2 1/2 cups flour; blend to form a smooth dough. Form dough into a ball and wrap in plastic wrap.
Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350. Roll out dough to 1/4 inch thick. Cut out circles with a 1 1/2 inch (6 cm) cutter.
Arrange circles on greased (or non-stick) baking sheets. Cut hearts from half of the circles with a 1 inch (2.5 cm) heart-shaped cutter.
Bake cookies for 12 minutes or until golden (I found it took a couple of minutes longer). Let cool completely.
Make frosting by beating 4 Tbsp softened butter with 1 cup powdered sugar, and adding a little vanilla and water to make smooth (or, as I did, just use store-bought vanilla icing!). Spread frosting over the whole (not heart) cookies.
Drop a small spoonful of jam (I used seedless strawberry) on top of the butter frosting (you only need maybe 1/2 tsp jam per cookie) and put heart shaped cookie on top. Yum!
Sorry…just reading over my typing and I see I said to use a “1 1/2 inch cutter” — that should be 2 1/2 inch (6 cm).
You are mom-o-riffic! Seriously, that is a funny story, you’ll be telling this one to the kids when they’re bigger and think Valentine’s Day is cheezy!
Them’s some impressive cookies.