Romantic Gift

December 12, 2007 | By Kristen | In Chaos of Life

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Today while working in the kitchen - today I made five pans of lasagna with meat, 4 lbs of pork chops, long grain rice, homemade applesauce, 3 lbs of green beans steamed and sealed, butternut squash baked and sealed and 2 lbs of carrots steamed, sugared and sealed- I had a little bit of time to let my mind wander.

I was thinking about Christmas and gifts and what gifts I remember getting that I remember most. I have been with my husband for 13 years, I moved in with him a little under a year after we started dating and we married 1 1/2 years later and started a family soon after.

My husband comes from a family that, well, I don’t know how to put it, that are not big celebration people? It has been one of our “couple adjustments” since my family always rejoiced and celebrated events like birthdays and all the holidays were special and called for decorations and special meals and getting dressed in your nice clothes even if it was “just” your family that was attending the celebration.

So today, while thinking of all of the gifts my husband has given me over the years. Maybe since I was in the kitchen and using the vacuum sealer that was my big gift last year or my bread maker that was the gift from the year before I decided that my most favorite gift was the year he gave me tickets to see Miss Saigon in the Boston Theater district.

He actually made the arrangements to stay in an older hotel for the night(this alone was amazing since my husband refuses to handle any sort of phone calls or arrangements.. really.. he won’t even call to order pizza) and he bought the tickets for the two of us, even though it was his least favorite thing to do.

We spent the night wandering the streets after the show, eating and drinking as we walked the winter streets and wandered thru the park until returning to our room very late at night.

Anyone that knows me, knows I am not one that wants or expects big gifts or expensive jewelry. Yes, I enjoyed the present of the actual show but more, I just appreciated the fact that he left his comfort zone that one year and made a daring choice to go “into the city” (even though it is only half hour away) and did something I never would have expected him to do. That was seven years ago and it still is the best gift I can remember.

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