The day started off with A completing his one duty of the day which was to make me pancakse and bacon for our "Valentine's Day" breakfast. I know, making him make breakfast on his birthday seems wron g but it was literally the only thing I asked of him and since we had agreed not to get each other anything for V-day (he lied, I got jewelery and chocolate!) and we weren't going out for it I didn't think it was that bad. Plus he loves making breakfast (I think).
After that I told him he didn't have to do anyting all day long and that he had full control of the TV all day long. Not that he actually relaxed, I couldn't keep him from folding laundry and doing dishes. I know I shouldn't complain about that but really I just wanted him to be able to relax for one day and he is completely incapable. At least I tried! He did however get to go and wander around Costco for an hour or two which is one of our favorite things to do, he just got to do it sans me and N.
Before that though he spent 30 minutes "coaching" his Irish/Scot/English wife on how to make gravy. Not brown gravy, italian red gravy. Otherwise know as spaghetti sauce :-). A is Italian, his mother is an Italian caterer. As a kid he always had ravioli for his birthday so that was the plan. I was going to make ravioli and gravy and antipasti platter for dinner for him and his family. The only problem was that I was cooking for him and his parents (italian caterers) and I've never made gravy before. So A walked me through the process from the right spoon to use all the way through the seasoning. It turned out great! Despite the birthday boy hovering over my every move. We just used frozen ravioli and his parents brought up bread from the bakery they use for their catering business in NJ.
I got him his favorite cake from a local italian bakery, it's just a cannoli cake and it was delicious. It reminded me of our wedding since that's what our cake was. It looked a little something like this except with only one cannoli and Happy Birthday A.. written on the top. All in all it was a good day. My in-laws all complimented me on my gravy, which is definitely blog-worthy! Happy Valentine's day all!!
