Sunday morning, Chris and I celebrated our Christmas together. Since I leave to go home Thursday, it was our last weekend morning together before the actual holiday.
We woke up and made our Christmas breakfast of muffins, bacon and hot chocolate, and then settled down to open our presents.
Eggnog muffins for Xmas morning
First, Chris opened his present from my fam, a sweater which he loved and wore later that day (looked great and fit him perfect).
Then, it was my turn to open his present from me. As I'm wont to do, I'd been trying to guess what it was since he put it under the tree. The box most closely resembled a shoe box, but I had a hard time believing that he would buy me shoes. As I started to unwrap, Chris told me that there was an explanation that went along with the present. As a veteran of my family, I am used to this, as our presents tend to come in the form of card with picture/poem, and an explanation of why the object isn't actually there in physical form/when it will be coming.
So, when I opened Chris's box to reveal a can of bike lubricant, I immediately feared that he was getting me a bike. This seemed unlikely since I don't ride bikes and don't like bikes, and have mentioned this several times. Still, I didn't know what else to think.
Until Chris went to the closet and pulled out a much larger box, which I came to understand was actually my present. The bike lubricant was completed unrelated, and the shoe-sized box was just a diversion. He didn't want to put the real box under the tree and thus give me time to guess what it was.
So, with joy and relief, I began to unwrap my actual present. There are no words for how surprised I was or how much I love it. The pictures will have to speak for themselves, but let me just say: much better than bike lubricant. Or a bike for that matter.
Glamor shots of my wonderful Christmas present from the wonderful boy I live with.
Then Chris opened his present from me, which was a nice pair of dark jeans to wear to work and go with his sweater and new grown-up persona. After gift-giving, we watched Love Actually, to further deepen our Christmas spirit.
Leaving the mess behind, we eventually changed out of our pajamas and went to his mom's house, where we were having a little family party to celebrate Chris's birthday. I also used it as an opportunity to give his family my Christmas gifts to them, and received their gifts to me: a great, big L.L. Bean bag from Margaret, inside of which was a smaller cosmetic bag, inside of which was a cute headband. From Stephanie I got a manicure kit with two nail polishes, which will come hugely in handy, as I repaint my nails about twice a week.
From there, we headed to his dad's house for his Christmas party. Starved by that point, we spent the first twenty minutes being anti-social and stuffing our faces, but eventually joined the party-goers to participate in actual conversation.
When we finally got home, we changed back into our pajamas, made ourselves a little Christmas drink, and stared at the mess in our living room without making any attempt whatsoever to clean it up.
The remains of Christmas. We'll clean up later!
A very merry Christmas indeed.
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