Buttercups & Burlap

It had been MONTHS since my best friend and I were reunited. We work opposite schedules and this year she was planning on spending Christmas abroad. We decided to have our “Best Friend Christmas” early.

The weekend was full of fun, movies and belly-laughs. I had had a really difficult week; the death of a beloved pet, battling an illness and then the death of a family member. I was 100% in need of time with her. The weather was super cold so we decided to stay put!

We started by setting up the Christmas tree and decorations while sharing some delicious Strait & Narrow gin beverages and catching up on all the recent gossip. We tried out the latest Instagram hack of stringing the lights vertically rather than wrapping them horizontally around the tree. I was skeptical but I’m not going to lie, it looks so much better and is sooo much easier! Once the tree was fully decked out in all its glory we sat beneath it and exchanged our gifts. For her a pair of cozy reading socks and a book (101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think). For me a pair of Sparkle Ball earrings from Hillberg & Berk. We feasted on Chinese food while we watched Blood, Sex and Royalty on Netflix.

You’d think on the weekend we’d sleep in! But, no, we tend to get up super early to maximize our limited time together. My best friend introduced me to Wayne Gretzky Salted Caramel Cream; we added it to our coffees. We sipped probably one too many coffees while we watched Lady Chatterley’s Lover on Netflix. And, like always we have our avocado toast for breakfast and I introduced her to National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Cooking is an activity that we absolutely LOVE to do together, what better way to spend a Saturday than making sugar cookies! While they cooled we watched Falling for Christmas and A Castle for Christmas on Netflix and made use of her Sephora masks (eye, face, hand & foot).

Lunch consisted of delicious croissant-sandwiches. We thought we needed even more Christmas cheer so we made a festive cocktail, put on Spotify‘s Xmas 2022 Playlist and danced around the kitchen as we decorated the sugar cookies. Our decorating skills were slightly impaired but at least they were yummy. A classic meal we always shared at university was chicken fingers and Caesar salad, so that was a must for dinner.

Still feeling pangs of nostalgia we decided to watch Mrs. Doubtfire on Amazon Prime. Which seems like an odd choice based on all of our other activities this past weekend. But, when we were doing our Bubbling Face mask, we bust out into fits of laughter because it felt and looked like we both had taken a pie to the face. Which of course caused us to simultaneously reminisce about and imitate the scene in which the late, great Robin Williams sticks his face in frosting to hide his identity from the court appointed liasion, Mrs. Sellner. We couldn’t not watch it after that!! That moment between us, really goes to show how connected we are, how similar we are and how we just “get each other.”

Sunday mornings are always tough for us, because we have to say good-bye. We always ALWAYS have Kraft Dinner for breakfast. We spent the rest of the day binge-watching The Big Brunch on Crave.