Your gift to yourself and your partner is the very best gift of all. It is a gift that will keep on giving as long as you want it to. With a bit of care and attention it will grow in value and never be obsolete.
I have always loved Christmas but these days, it is a much more muted affair. Even if I lived alone, I would still feel the essence of Christmas.
Christmas means lots of different things to people and I don't want to diminish someone else's thoughts on it...but, it's so commercialised now, less about the more traditional aspects and more about buying stuff and I think that's thanks to the corporations who want to drive revenue and keep people buying. Fair enough I suppose, I just don't buy in.