On the Tenth Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me ten romantic dances. He created a playlist of songs that have a romantic memories for us. We went down in the dance studio, turned on the mirror ball and colored lights and danced to all ten songs. It was our 2013 do-over, which was a much better Christmas than 2012. We celebrated it by having the mistletoe kiss that he had wanted.

On the Eleventh Day of Christmas, we had a 2014 do-over and celebrated with 11 snow day activities (the kind you do indoors since there was no real snow outside). That was the year he kept showing up to help me out on snow days, and we had so much fun together. I had finally gotten up the nerve to talk to him about us getting back together but the snow never came again, and that dynamic slipped away once more.

I had devised a plan to lure him into my bedroom, but there was no more snow. I confessed this to him, and he seemed both disappointed to have missed out on it, and completely intrigued. He kept pressing me for details of my plan but I was too embarrassed to tell him. In all honesty, as I look back on it, my plan to seduce him was pretty pathetic and the Universe probably did me a favor by not dropping more snow on us!

I changed the subject by thanking him for the Christmas do-overs, but told him it wasn’t necessary. We went through what we went through to get back here. Truth be told, 2006 was my worst Christmas ever. 2010-2014 weren’t that bad. He agreed that 2006 was not a good Christmas for him either. He asked if we should do that one over. I told him I’d rather just leave it in the past and be grateful for Christmas 2015.