From the Heart

Heart shaped food is so fun!  Mary and Rich get such a kick out of it, as the days to Valentine's approach I love to make them heart shaped food.  The other morning I made banana sourdough heart shaped pancakes. 

Mary and I were reading in this book tonight. We were on the chapter where the Ingalls family have guests for Christmas dinner and we came across this paragraph...

 

"Mrs. Boast was great fun. She was interested in everything and eager to learn how Ma managed so well. When you haven't milk enough to have sour milk, however do you make such delicious biscuits, Laura? It was fun to show her. Laura measured out the cups of sour dough, put in the soda and salt and flour and rolled out the biscuits on the board. "But how do you make the sour dough?" Mrs. Boast asked. "You start it," said Ma, "by putting some flour and warm water in a jar and letting it stand till it sours." "Then when you use it, always leave a little," said Laura. "And pour in the scraps of biscuit dough, like this, and more warm water. Laura put in the warm water and covered it. She put the clean cloth and the plate on the jar and just set it in a warm place. She set it in its place on the shelf by the stove and it's always ready to use, whenever you want it."

After we read that Mary's eye's lit up and said, "That's what we do!" It was so cool to read a real life story that happened back in the 1800's and see them do what we do.

 

He is loved just a little bit. Ha!

 

 

Mary is having so much fun getting Valentines in the mail.  Her Aunt Linda sent her this one.

 

 

She is having a lot of fun making Valentines this year.  She is such a little love bug.