I had an awesome afternoon yesterday. Josh’s surprise is that he’s doing the 12 Days of Christmas for me! Technically they are supposed to be the 12 days after Christmas but he wanted to lead up to Christmas.

He didn’t get me a partridge in a pear tree, in case you’re wondering. ;)

For the first day of Christmas we had a 1 hour couple’s massage. It was amazing. It was so relaxing, and the best part was that we did it together. I’m not sure if it was our conversation on Saturday or the fact that he was so relaxed, but I was able to convince him to come back to the apartment with me to watch a movie. We cuddled up on the couch together. There was actual physical contact. It was wonderful.

We ordered a pizza and then I told him that I wanted to bake cookies. He accused me of giving him a face to convince him to help. I told him I had no idea what he was talking about and asked what face I was giving him. He said, “It’s the same face that got me to drive you across the state of Pennsylvania in February to watch a rodent look for his shadow at five o’clock in the morning.” I smiled at him, “Sounds like a pretty persuasive face.” Then I grabbed his hand and dragged him into the kitchen to make gingerbread cookies.

I was getting the cookies into the oven when the pizza arrived so we had dinner and then I got him to stick around for another movie. I tried to use my persuasive face to get him to watch a Hallmark Christmas movie with me, but he wasn’t giving in so we watched Elf.

I’m excited to see what we’re going to do for the second day of Christmas. He told me to be ready to go out by 5:00. I can’t wait!