In the same way that I like Thursday better than Friday, anticipating rather than surprises, Christmas Eve better than Christmas, I have realized I may like the week before Christmas better than the week during Christmas.
Stefan and I Christmas shopped today–he is a great shopper, he finds the most perfect thing in about two seconds. Then we made gift tags together, which after the tree and the music may be my favorite part of Christmas.
Camille comes home tomorrow. It will snow eventually. I am savoring the looking forward.
twenty-something years of "what have you been up to?" 
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