♛ I must confess, Anonyme, that this response took me some time as Louis and I spent most of our conscious hours on Christmas Eve and the night thereafter in each other’s arms, either curled together on the couch by the fire reading favorite poetry aloud, lazing in the tub w/ those new bath soaps that tint liquid into a galaxy, tangled in the sheets… you get the idea. My arms and hands were quite unavailable for any social networking >;}

Last year’s gift was actually a big hit with him. It was William Harvey’s de Motu Cordis.

As for physical gifts, there are already too many holidays in the year that seem geared towards one or the other of us (Louis’s birthday merits the entire night revolving around him), beside the fact that we give each other little gifts year-round when the mood strikes us, as many couples do. 

Most years I give him a number of gag gifts, anything to make him laugh out loud. Even an admonishing smirk is worth a particularly tasteless gift. Par example: