Happy Chinese New Year!
One of my best girlfriends is Chinese so I always make sure to send her some special love at the start of the Chinese New Year! Did you know this year is the year of the Tiger? RAWR. Lots of ups and downs predicted.
Also…
Happy Valentine’s Day!
This is our 10th Valentine’s Day together. Times goes by so fast!
As I mentioned, I am banned from the kitchen today. :mrgreen:
I woke up and had a nice and easy 5 mile run on the treadmill at a 10 minute mile pace, incline 2%. My legs felt like LEAD after doing the Booty Camp Fitness Advanced Level yesterday so I just kept my pace steady today with no challenging miles. It was basically a maintenance run as I like to call them!
While I was running, Eric was busy in the kitchen doing mysterious things. After showering, I came into the kitchen (ravenous) and was surprised with some beautiful flowers and breakfast.
I am wearing the first piece of jewelry he ever gave me 10 years ago- a blue stone necklace:
A fresh juice made for us with carrots, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and a cucumber:
and Whole Wheat blueberry waffles! I couldn’t believe it, but he got the recipe from one of my favourite websites- Fat Free Vegan.
I spread mine with some Artisana Coconut Butter that I was sent to review. This was my first time trying coconut butter and I loved it. Imagine what coconut butter would taste like and it is about 10 times better! It is 100% Organic, Raw Coconut Meat (dehydrated at low temperature). I also had cashew butter on my waffle too.
This was amazing!!!!!! Eric was so nervous that it wasn’t going to taste good, but it tasted like a gourmet waffle. He did great :)
It was so cute, when I went into the kitchen he had waffle batter all over his foot and pant leg- apparently he dropped the whisk all over himself! lol.
Last year I made him heart-shaped pancakes, but I liked these better.
He had two waffles with pure maple syrup (in every square!!)
After eating he wouldn’t even let me touch a dish.
I spend my life in the kitchen baking, cleaning, and doing mounds of dishes everyday so this was a really nice treat. :) I don’t want the day to end!
Coming up today:
- I need to finish Eric’s homemade v-day card (I always make him cards when I can)
- I have a couple hours of paperwork to get done (FDA Prior notices for shipments)
- Olympic watching (we’ve been watching them non-stop- love it!!)
- Eric has a second surprise for me late afternoon
- I am taking him out for a surprise tonight
Tomorrow is a holiday for us- ‘Family Day’…I am excited because we will likely be out late tonight.
PS- I washed the floors using vinegar and water that some of you suggested and it was wonderful! Thanks so much for the tip. I will likely do the Murphy’s Oil once every 1-2 months still because the oil is supposed to be very moisturizing for the wood. However, I think using it once a week was way too much and that’s why I had so much build up occurring!
I still washed it on my hands and knees and hand dried it as I went. I used about 1/8 cup vinegar and 4 cups warm water and a damp cloth.
Enjoy your day!
xoxo
Those waffles look amazing! Happy Valentine’s Day!
Your Valentines Day looks amazing!! i love waffles and those look amazing :)
wow Eric did great! My bf gave me a pendant like that years ago also – an emerald one. I wore it ALL of the time, then misplaced it – found it, now misplaced it again. :(
Your hardwood is seriously beautiful!!
Oh how I wish we had family day here. I could really use a “family day” tomorrow!
I have such trouble with my hardwoods too!! But I did find vinegar + water to work well. Just annoying to prepare and do.
You guys are adorable. I hope the rest of your V-day was great. Now I feel like I should go look up what the Year of the Tiger ought to bring.. I know I was born in the Year of the Dragon. Talk about RAWR haha.
Happy valentines day :) Those waffles look so yummy!
What a sweet man. I hope the rest of your Valentines Day was just as good as the beginning!
Awww, what a sweet hubby!! Happy Valentine’s Day!
That is too sweet. I love that he went and found the recipe and everything online.
Also, your floor looks beautiful. I never thought I would be in such awe at a floor, but I am. Haha. :D
I love this tip about the vinegar and water. Alas, clean only lasts so long…and you’re back again!
washing hard wood floors with steeped black tea really keeps the colour beautiful although your floors look new and beautiful
What a lovely way to spend valentine’s day. We made waffles for a valentine’s dinner.
I’ll have to keep that floor washing idea in mind. I’d love to have hard wood floors one day.
Go Eric! What a wonderful start to V Day! Hope you had fun!
What a sweet Valentine’s present. I love those little meaningful things. I hope you enjoyed the evening too ;)
Those waffles look fabulous!! Love that you went all out to surprise Eric, too :) He’s so lucky to have you!
Hope you had a great night!
I came looking for an oil free waffle recipe and found this. I may try that. I’m also trying Hash Brown Waffles this morning – Christmas morning btw – and the recipe is from the book ‘Forks Over Knives: Flavor!’ First time trying a recipe from that book.
On the hardwood floors. I recently burned a pan of beans on the stove and had so much smoke in the whole downstairs, that nothing was helping to get rid of the smell of burnt beans. Finally we resorted to washing down all the walls and floors with straight vinegar. I had 100% white vinegar in a spray bottle and just sprayed, wiped and dried as I went on hands and knees. It did the trick. I was so thankful! Of course, we also had to wash everything in the rooms, from pillow cushions off the couch to every single thing sitting out on the countertops in the kitchen, to bringing the area rug out to the lawn to sit in the sun for the afternoon. I was surprised, that it took full strength to do the trick and that everything I applied that to, had no issue from it. I first had tried a mix of water and vinegar, but it didn’t work. My hardwood floors looked fine after doing this.
Thanks for sharing your trick!! :)