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It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas...

We infuse so much holiday spirit and celebrations into our weekends that they are bursting at the seams.

The festivities were underway on Friday night with a dinner (to die for) at my favorite Palo Alto restaurant Birch Street  (the Old Bistro Elan).  Sadly, due to lease issues, the bustling Bistro Elan has been moved to a much smaller location down the street.  Which naturally has me worried as I could hardly get us a table at their much larger old location.  Advance strategy needs to be taken from now on!

Their signature Foie Gras Dish
After dinner, I thanked the Gods that we still got to  enjoy the same beautiful food, ambiance and fabulous service.  But especially for the great company of our beloved friends who joined us with awesome wines and stories from their collections. 

On Saturday, Mr. Urban invited me to join him at a holiday party for some friends' rather hot dating start-up in San Francisco.  Hint: They are the Number 1 dating site on FB.  As you can imagine I was not originally thrilled at the prospect of partying with no doubt young and fabulous City folks...   I did ask him to let me be, stay in Los Altos for the night, wrapped safely in my giant puffy jacket.  He would not take no for an answer. 

But I am glad he persisted!  Going out on the town with my own young and fabulous man turned out to be quite the treat.  I also got to catch up with an especially good friend, and meet some very nice and beautiful people in the glitzy blue lit ballroom of Four Seasons.

A snowman with legs!

Sunday started out with a sweet brunch with Santa together with our beloved "mom, pop, and tot" group of friends.  I just named them that now, but we all had our Toddlers around the same time at the same hospital and have been friends since.  With each passing year my love for them ages too, as I am sure parenthood would have been far harder and less fun without this group of people in our lives.


After, Mr. Urban, our girl and I went to see our first performance of the Nutcracker.  It was a wonderful experience.  One that was especially meaningful to us since over the Fall our girl has been taking a classical music class, and Tchaikovsky has been a composer  that we have had quite a few dinner conversations about.  I was amazed to see how a three year old can sit through over two hours of ballet, and appear completely moved the entire time by the music and the performance.   It made me cry.

We have many fun activities planned for the week, so stay tuned.  And I'd love to hear about how you are making this season special for you and your family.  So please leave me a comment below!

PS.  Don't be afraid of listening to Pink Martini's Christmas album over and over again...  it will only improve your busy days
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