more lovely, more temperate

since the business and confusion of our holiday season yielded a stack of unsent christmas cards sitting in dust on the sideboard, we decided to toss the tired, golden greetings and look ahead. it's early yet, and even though it costs thirty nine cents too many to stamp and send love cards with the knee-socked swarthy mail delivery man to be postmarked and flown across the country, we're planning and smearing, and yes, we're early, which means there's a fat, heart-shaped cookie chance someone will feel a flicker of love warming in their mailbox.











valentine making without chocolate is impossible, no? "bon-bon!" jude chirps as he peels off the foil wrapping. henry drools some chocolate onto his paper: "i'm making paint mom! chocolate paint!" if you receive a cocoa scented valentine it will be quite by accident -- i don't believe those made it into the stack.









perhaps most interesting today is the clean surface of my desk! not a piece of misplaced importance to be seen!