Caramels and Valentine's Day / Mom
This is my Valentine note to you Kelli, full of love and memories...
As I sat sucking and chewing on a homemade caramel this morning, lots of Valentine memories came flooding through my heart. I could see your face as a little girl, along with your two sisters, as the three of you opened up your Valentine cards and your special hearts full of candy. I always loved watching your faces as you opened your cards. I could easily spend a couple of hours looking at cards - not pretty enough, not glittery enough, not right, too much this, too much that - and then I would finally find cards for the three of you. Then I would search for Valentine hearts to fill with candy. Those had to be just right too. :-) Then the search began for the right candy to fill your hearts with and kept your chocolate allergy in mind. After we had watched ET the one year, your favorite candy was Reese Pieces, so I filled your heart with Reese Pieces that year. Year after year, I would come up with something non-chocolate for you - sour gummy worms, sour peach rings, sour cherry balls, gummy bears. :-)
The day finally came when you outgrew your chocolate allergy. You were 12 years old and looking forward to getting your first chocolate Valentine's heart. You were so excited. I did a mixture of chocolate (the good stuff, not the waxy kind) and non-chocolate in your heart that year. I remember the candy that went first - all of the non-chocolate candy, lol. You would nibble on the chocolate candy, and then put the piece back in the heart, lol, always going back to the non-chocolate candy. When I asked you about it, I think you were afraid of hurting my feelings. I reassured you that it is okay not to like something, and I asked you about the chocolate. You told me it wasn't so great. You were so disappointed because it wasn't what you were expecting.
You never did become a chocoholic Kel. You grew to tolerate it and much preferred the milk chocolate over the dark chocolate. You had a love of Fannie May candies, but you preferred their plain caramels and their caramels with the marshmallow center (what were those called again?). I learned to fill your Valentine heart with those caramels. Boy oh boy could you ever eat those two candies. You always loved soft, chewy, buttery caramels, especially my homemade caramels. :-) When you ate the caramels, you would take little bites and then suck on each of the bites to enjoy the buttery goodness, just like I did this morning. You were definitely a happy camper with caramels, and I can see why because I too enjoyed taking little bites of my caramels this morning and sucking on each individual bite.
Beautiful memories. Your smiling face imprinted upon my heart. :-)
Happy Valentine's Day Kelli With All of My Love ~
Momma
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