This Christmas was a really special Christmas for me. This year was the first year I was able to celebrate the Holiday with my fiancé in the two and half years we've been together. You see, the past two years I've gone either to Northern Kentucky or Florida to be with my brothers and mom for Christmas. He hasn't been able to join me due to his schedule and working retail during the holiday season (if you've never done it, I recommend avoiding it if possible). However, this year I decided to stick around in Chicago and celebrate the Winter with my boo for the first time.
It's nice because it gives us a chance to build our own traditions. My family did not have too many holiday traditions, but we did have a few (and there are a couple that my mother is obstinate about her kids maintaining…), whereas his family did not have many holiday traditions at all, so we are really able to start building our traditions together with a minimum amount of outside influence. So this year we set out to create a few of our own.
On Christmas Eve, we went out to Boystown with a friend to grab a drink and see the other Chi-town revelers. It should be noted, however, that Chicago, at least the North Side of the city where I live, is mostly full of transplants. It seems everyone I talk to is not from here. They are from Iowa, Texas, Nebraska… anywhere but near. So while I expected the bars to be full of people avoiding their families while they are in town for the holiday, I was instead reminded that this part of town is more like a college town during the summer than anything else.
Christmas morning came and we made breakfast then opened gifts. I'll eventually post pictures of my gift from Esvan (once he decides to use my gift to him to take a few pics ;), but we had a great time exchanging gifts. After the blur of paper and cardboard boxes was over, we sat around for a bit playing with our new toys and taking in some Christmas-y TV then finally made our way to see Sherlock Holmes (I'll have more thoughts on that movie later).
All-in-all it was a nice, quiet Christmas spent with the man I love. I honestly could not ask for anything much better than that.
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