Listen up! It’s time to change out of your yoga pants, delete your Zoom account, and lock the children in the basement with Disney+ and a giant container of animal crackers. Dress up! Put on those clothes that have been collecting dust in your wardrobe. Take a shower, shave, pretend like you’re headed to the 9 course tasting menu.
As much as we want you to support our restaurant friends, there just isn’t anything romantic about eating dinner with a mask on. Maybe you’re into it, we won’t judge.
Let’s set the scene: It’s Saturday February 13th and the kids are watching Cars 2 for the 12th time this pandemic. You’ve fed them their mac and cheese and all is quiet. You have at least 45 minutes until the “scary part” to relax.
Enter Valentine’s cheese board for two and a bottle of Broc Love Red. We’re putting together beautiful cheese boards for two that have everything you need as a pre dinner snack. It’s going to be fun, we promise. It will look nice, taste great, and you will absolutely feel like you are treating yourself.
Ok, you’ve been interrupted. You bribe the children with cookies shaped like hearts if they give you another hour of adult communication. Maybe you will stare longingly into each other’s eyes for five minutes and think about a life outside of the four walls of your home. “Remember when we used to eat off a plate that didn’t come from our cabinets?”
Here comes the main event. Light some candles. Must do. Admire your Pockets of Posy flowers and pat yourself on the back for those. You pre-ordered this all off our Valentine’s menu—now you’re warmin everything up in about 20 minutes. Dinner is served and you breathe a sigh of relief at maybe not having to run the dishwasher (now, that’s romantic!!) tonight.
Once the movie is over you all gather around and munch down some heart shaped cookies, warm chocolate brownies, and fruit filled love envelopes.
Is it the same as actually going out? No, not really. But you’ve made it special in your own way and really that’s the best we can hope for in a pandemic.