Cookie Christmas
Months ago, my boyfriend and I were talking about Christmas and gift giving. His family was not used to gift giving or exchanging gifts during Christmas and he carried this out until now. He isn't the type of guy who goes out of his way to get someone he loves a gift.
Unlike me.
Although we have the same family situation about gifts, I personally like buying and giving gifts to family and close friends. I like buying or making them something that would make them feel loved and appreciated. I even bought him wireless earphones on our first date! That's how bad I am. (Or good, whatever you think of this.)
And while I love opening presents so much - like literally unwrapping them from crisp papers that my parents don't even open gifts given to them for me to do the honors - weirdly, I get awkward receiving gifts. Yeah, yeah, what the hell, right?
That's why when Firefly asked me what I wanted for Christmas, I didn't say that I want to get something materialistic. Instead, I said that I wanted to bake brownies with him. (He attended a course for this before.)
Sadly, we didn't get to bake brownies.
We made cookies instead!
It was a disaster at first - starting with me going back to our house to get some of the ingredients and gifts I bought for his family when I was already on my way, to having baking powder instead of baking soda, and burning our first batch of cookies! But as we put on the second up to the last batch of cookies in the oven and watch it rise, it became better and better.
I'm so thankful for Firefly because I get to experience baking again since the last time I did it was in high school. He was also feeling sick at that time and just got off from work, but he picked me up and went straight to baking with me. He did 70% of the work because I didn't trust myself with anything other than prepping the ingredients and washing the dishes.
Other than that, my mom liked the cookies and I even got a hug from his mom before I left their house.
It was indeed a core memory for our relationship. We're already planning and talking about how we can get a smaller and newer oven to try other recipes. I hope we get to do it because I'm really looking forward to it.












