Valentine's Day!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day!  Our schedules have both been a little crazy lately...  Albert had a concert to conduct on Valentine's evening.  Then, he had a honor band clinic all day/evening Friday and Saturday.  I, obviously, attended the concert on Valentine's Day, then, I attended another concert Friday night.  So, we kind of had to fit Valentine's Day around everything that was going on this week.

So, Wednesday night, I made dinner - butternut squash risotto.  (Although it wasn't a true risotto as I just used brown rice.)  And then Thursday, after the concert (which was amazing), we celebrated with some gluten-free cupcakes.  After a recent google search, I discovered that there is a gluten-free bakery here in Memphis.  So, of course, I had to try the cupcakes, and they were fantastic!  The woman that owns the bakery also gave me a sample dinner roll, and it was also truly delicious.  Her motto is "You won't miss a thing!" and she is right!  Of course, my first thought was, "I have got to learn how to make this!"

(Since I didn't have time to try out any new recipes this week, this is my Sweet Treat Saturday tip for you Memphians.  And I promise, that next week, I'll have a new recipe for you to try.)

I also got Albert the book The Five Love Languages by Gary Champman.  They were talking about it on K-LOVE all day on Valentine's Day, and so I picked one up for us to read.  Have any of you read it?

It is a book that I have seen before, and I am somewhat familiar with the concept.  Even though I haven't read the book, I know for a fact that Albert and I have completely different love languages.  This is tough, because I think our instinct tells us to do for others what we would like to have done for us, not necessarily what will be the most meaningful for them.  So, we are looking forward to reading this book together, and hopefully, discovering some new things about one another.

Finally, I just ordered some new tennis shoes that I am really excited about, and are somewhat appropriate for Valentine's Day.

No one will miss me coming with these on!  Have a great week all!