Baby Vivienne can't appreciate it yet, but her mom loves the crap out of Christmas. I can't wait until she understands leaving her shoes out for St. Nick, leaving cookies for Santa Claus and leaving mom and dad asleep on Christmas morning.
I love cookies, Yule logs, putting another log on the fire, singing carols and Carole King, wrapping presents, picking just the perfect present and judging someones esteem of me by their present.
Yes, I said it.
It's not pretty, it's not Christian (which I also am not), but it's true. When your significant other gives you a laminated wall map, and only a laminate wall map, the thought will float in your mind as your heart sinks in your belly that perhaps your beloved thinks less of you, thinks that you were not nice this year, thinks you are ....a delivery driver.