Buon San Valentino!

For Valentine's Day I spent the beginning of the day cleaning, cleaning, cleaning like a whirling dervish. I had to change the mop water 3 times because it was so dirty! I guess that's about what I should expect since I haven't really deep cleaned since Thanksgiving ;) 


With the cleaning done, it was time for the fun part: Decorating!!! We were getting ready to have some friends over for a Valentine's fondue - meat, cheese and chocolate fondue to be exact. Yum! 

With the arrival of our guests and friends Giovanni, Rachael, Charlotte and "little brother" (not visible until approx 10th of March) let the party begin!!!! 

Oh, first, you've seen the gorgeous flowers already, but let me just say, as we were getting ready for work in this morning, my Amore said - what I heard anyways - was that on Valentine's Day flower prices are hiked up astronomically and it wasn't necessarily the greatest thing to have to get ripped of for flowers. I heartily agreed that rationally it didn't make much sense at all... so, I didn't expect any Valentine's flowers and I tried not to be sad about it (even though he got me flowers all the years previously) because, after all, he was right.

Low and behold, Z was a bit late in getting home from the office (in fact he arrived after the guests) but he came bearing this most gorgeous bouquet!!!! I was so surprised :D and delighted!!! 

Thank you so much Amore mio! 

Just to keep the record straight, it turns out that he said nothing of the kind and had intentions to get me flowers from the day's start! Only - my hearing deceived me... and that made the flowers that much more gorgeous somehow... tricksy Amore mio ;) I'm still not quite convinced my lack of hearing was completely unintended <3

We had great fun! Especially Charlotte who decided Zeno was one of the BEST toys she'd ever had :) 

Happy Valentine's Day!!! Buon San Valentino!!!! 
I just love my Z so much... is he not the absolute super best!?!?!?!? <3