On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me a promise for an awesome 12 months together in 2016. Best present over.

This was the first year I had gone to the Anderson’s Christmas Eve Party since 2011. They didn’t have them for a couple of years and then last year I had other things going on.

It was so nice to be back, and I wasn’t there as just another guest this year. I was Josh’s date. This is actually the first time I’ve gone as his date, where he picked me up and took me and then brought me home. It was nice. I didn’t have to feel like I was waiting around until he had time to give me some attention.

I forgot how much I loved those parties. It made me feel all Christmasy and happy. They always have amazing food, and I love singing Christmas carols, and Josh and I spent time under the mistletoe - out of respect for tradition of course.

I had a naughty-or-nice detector app on my phone. You “scan” people and it tells you if they have been naughty or nice. We were joking around with it because you can rig it to have the outcome of your choice and Josh got a kick out of making everyone naughty - except for me, of course, I was nice. I suggested that we should scan him. He pulled me real close to him and responded with, “What do you want me to be? Naughty or nice? Or maybe both?” He winked at me and gave me the double eyebrow lift. I asked what he was proposing. He said, “I’m proposing that we put an end to this taking-things-slow stuff.”

And so Christmas started off very nice… ;)