2012, You are my year.

Yes, you are.

The last few days have been incredibly amazing…I seriously have no idea how to begin blogging about it.

Spending a low-key Christmas with the Kotenkos is a very different and nice experience for me.  I’m so used to my holidays being jampacked with relatives from various corners of the region (and sometimes, back from other countries), endless tables of food, endless chatter, just…eventful to the nth level.  And Christmas is usually a 2-day event.  It was actually a nice change to just have a small dinner with J’s immediate family and not make too much of a big deal of the festivities.

Seeing where J grew up for the first time is also a holiday highlight for me.  I got to see the school he went to, the creeks he used to play in with his childhood friends, the horses his dad trained; I even got to hang out with his pals from high school and see a whole new side of him, through the eyes of the people who knew him in his teens.  Everyone has been so nice.  I didn’t feel like an outsider.

He made my dream of visiting New York for the first time come true, too.  We didn’t get to see a Broadway play (it would have eaten up all of our sightseeing time) or get to go on top of the Empire State Building (lines were too long), but we were able to walk around and see city and it was so much fun.  I was able to meet up with a couple of my friends from MrazWomen for the first time, too.  It was the perfect first New York visit.  I am definitely going to go back and stay longer soon.

The New Year weekend, we decided to spend in J’s college town.  We stayed in a quaint and cozy little cottage J called home during the years he spent kicking scholastic ass at the university, which his parents turned into an occasional vacation home.  I saw my first snow fall!  It was great.  I didn’t care if my hands were cold.  I got my white holiday at the perfect moment.

When I say perfect moment, I mean it. PERFECT MOMENT.  I can’t blog about it yet, but I’ve been swimming in happiness and the awesomeness of the present the last couple of days.  I am truly, truly looking forward for the year to unfold and unleash more OMG-worthy moments. :)

2012, I am ready.  Bring it.