This morning, my boys found little boxes of chocolates on the table where they typically sit. I had put them there before going to bed the night before to surprise them in the morning. After eating their raisin toast, yogurt, and tangerines for breakfast, they indulged in a chocolate.
After a day of school, work, and playing at the park, I came home to bake a pizza for dinner. One of the local stores periodically purchases items at Costco and resells them to their customers. They had a pancetta and sundried tomato pizza that I just couldn't pass up. Since it didn't fit inside my bike basket, I had to be brave and set it on top of the basket and hold onto it as I rode home from the store. I felt like I had passed some sort of Japanese culture test upon arriving home with the pizza in tact.
Since Costco size pizzas do not fit into Japanese sized ovens, I had to get creative in baking it. I asked the park moms how they bake Costco pizza and one mom told me she cuts the pizza into slices and bakes it that way. I decided to try it her way with one little modification. I cut a small triangular section out of the crust to make the pizza slices into hearts.
As soon as my son saw the pizza, he smiled and complimented the heart. My husband thought it was pretty cute as well.
After dinner, my son and I whipped up a batch of hojicha (roasted green tea) chocolate chip cookies. I didn't refrigerate the dough, so the cookies were super flat and thin after baking. We didn't care. They taste fantastic and their thin form allowed us to cut the cookies into heart shapes. I've been simplifying my home (using the KonMari method) and recently tossed my heart shaped cookie cutter. But I didn't mind. I actually thought it was more fun cutting them by hand and they each had more personality.
We definitely celebrated this holiday more than any of our friends in Japan. But it was fun adding little touches of love into our day.
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