The Most Perfect Day!

This weekend has been such a blur. I once again tried to cram way to much in but I wouldn't change anything. 

First, J and I went to see New York City Ballet's "The Nutcracker." It's funny because my experience or the Nutcracker was always Pacific Northwest Ballet's and I assumed it would almost all be the same but as it turns out, the NYCB choreography is much truer to the original choreography. The dancing was just on another level. Even J murmured "how is that possible" at one point during the sugar plum fairy's dance with her cavalier. 

The only draw back was all of the kid noise. Haha. It sounds like such a snobby thing, and I really love kids. Plus, I know when I have kids I'll bring thing to theater and ballet, but it's just a strange thing when you pay a lot for a ticket to go to the ballet and hear kids rustling candy wrappers the whole time. Actually my biggest problem wasn't the kids, it was the adults who somehow thought that since it was a kid friendly performance it meant they could behave as kids. The woman beside me literally stood for the beginning of the second act, and we had good seats. It's not that she couldn't see. (End rant. It was an amazing experience and I can't wait to bring my kids and be the mean mom that won't let them rustle candy wrappers). 

After the ballet we headed to Brooklyn to this neighborhood called Dyker Heights. It was featured on one of those, "Extreme Christmas Lights" specials, and for a good reason. More lights than you can imagine. J was such a good sport and I laughed good-naturedly about my pure joy and enthusiasm despite the freezing weather. 

(More lights below)

On the way home he surprised me by stopping at my favorite restaurant in my old neighborhood, Lot 2. He won serious points with that move and then was rewarded by them having his favorite cocktail featured as the drink of the night (Veiux Carre...recipe at very bottom. It's the perfect winter warm you up cocktail. It was a shame I don't live a few blocks away and we couldn't stumble home because we both would have gladly imbibed more.)

Then we were going to have "Christmas" because I'm heading to the west coast for Christmas with my fam tomorrow but we decided to watch an episode of Breaking Bad instead...priorities. Christmas tonight though!

Tradition Make Me Happy!

Months ago I told J I wanted to do a Christmas tree ornament exchange. It was when we were still joking about how long we'd be able to stand each other, and I think I said, "well that way if we're still together we can look at them and be like, aw, our first ornaments...and it we're not together we can smash them."

Every so often he'd ask, "are we really doing an ornament exchange?" And the a few weeks ago he proudly exclaimed, "I know what ornament I'm getting you!"  He's acting like my enthusiasm hasn't been contagious, but every now and then I catch a glimpse between his eyerolls.

Luckily Christmas is never far from my mind and I'd already ordered his too. Look at this cute "je t'aime" bunny I found on etsy. One of my favorite early dates was going to a movie "je t'aime, je t'aime" and I'm always saying it to him in a thick ridiculous Pepe Le'Pew accent.

 

He got me this adorable ballet dancer from the Nutcracker. We're going in a couple of weekends and he teased me for putting the date tickets for the ballet went on sale on my calendar. 

I can't wait to continue this tradition! What are your traditions?