GIRL POWER DECEMBER 2013 | Page 22

Mixing it up with Montana! With the Holiday season here, I’m sure you wish you could celebrate it with someone special and someone new. I wished for years that I could have a mistletoe kiss or someone to spend Christmas with, but I’m happy I didn’t for those years. I am now in a wonderful relationship and I’ve realized that all of those years wishing were wasted. I didn’t get my first kiss until just this past summer, with my current boyfriend and I couldn’t be happier that I saved, something even as simple as my first kiss, for him. Of course, I’m hopeful that this year I will have my mistletoe kiss, but that’s because I love him and I love where we are. Boyfriends may come and go and you may have good and bad memories of your time with them, but the holidays are for family, no matter how dysfunctional they are. I am, unfortunately, away from my family for this holiday, but I am cherishing every holiday I was fortunate to spend with them, even being 1,700 miles away. As much society, pushes for perfect Christmas relationships, they are only perfect when the two accept both themselves individually and don’t fall under the pressure from society. My boyfriend is one of those guys that does not think romantically at all, which can be annoying to me, since I’m the the hopeless romantic, but at the same time, everything we do, we do on our own terms and we’re happy we The holidays are a time to be grateful for what you have and look forward to a new year aren’t bound by the confines of society. We’re happy with our situation and where we’re headed. Don’t spend the wonder