Valentine's Week-Galentine's Festival of Fun

If you hate Valentine's Day, then I'm not going to lie, you will probably hate me or this blog this week.  But I think you should stick around anyways.  Here is my view on Valentine's Day... I know that some people think it's just a made up holiday used to get people to buy greeting cards*** and expensive chocolates.  To me, it is just another reason to celebrate something.  And I always love celebrating stuff.  Plus it means I have more to blog about.  So this week is Valentine's week and I'm covering a broad spectrum of ways I celebrated and I am not just talking about me and my husband.  I celebrated with lots of people.  We will start off the week with Galentine's Day.....

Ok here we go....
1-What is Galentine's Day?  Ok well on that amazing show I keep talking about (Parks and Recreation), my idol, Leslie Knope (aka Amy Poehler) celebrates Galentine's Day each year with her girl friends on the day before Valentine's Day.  I think she seved them frittatas and gave them mosaic pictures of their faces last year.

So I decided to force my gal friends to come over for brunch this year.

I made them Oreo truffles.....

I made them Galentine's Day Cards (with the cool stickers my husband bought me)...

This one was for my friend, Tiffany.  I thought it was fitting since she's a math tutor.  I found these printouts for the inside of the cards here....Aren't they awesome?

This one was for Beezus5...

I set the table with their cards...

I made stuffed pancakes and I didn't burn them all this time....

Beezus5 brought us all heart cookies with lime icing.  They were awesome...

Here's the cookie recipe from Beezus5.

Lime Cornmeal Cookies

Cream - 2 sticks of butter -soft and 1 cup of sugar.
Beat in one egg by hand
Add 4 tsp of lime zest
2 tsp of lime juice
1/2 tsp of almond extract
Evenly mix in 1 1/2 cups of flour and 1 cup of yellow cornmeal
Cover and chill for at least 1 hour
To make glaze:
add 8 tbs of lime juice and 1/2tsp of lime zest to 3 1/4 cup of confectioners sugar (yes i know that sounds insane, but if its not thick enough the glaze will be too runny) Add food coloring.
Roll dough into balls and roll in 1/2 sugar, 1/2 corn mixture. Press down with the bottom of a glass. use a small heart shaped cookie cutter to cut the cookie, but not all the way. Place on pan at least an inch apart.
Bake at 350 for 14-15 minutes, turn pan 1/2 way through baking.
Remove from pan and put on cooling rack. When cool, paint on glaze with a teaspoon. Let sit for 15 minutes or until glaze is hard.

I forgot to take pictures of everything else (including the people who came.  I swear they are real people and not my imaginary friends.)  The other ladies brought coffee, mimosa's and coffee cake and I made some cheesy grits.  It was delightful and I hope it's something that can become a yearly tradition.  Happy Belated Galentine's Day to all my friends who came and to those who live far away (or that I only know from the Internet).  You guys were totally there in spirit. 

***-And just an FYI all the Valentine's Cards I bought this year cost 50 cents a piece at the Dollar Tree, well and/or I made them.