Gretchen(XMAS)

It's been ten wonderful years with your Gretchen. Gretchen Salas is a delight and even after ten years you're still just crazy about her. She's kind, generous, brilliant, and funny with a sort of delightful laugh that you can't get enough of. You regularly wake up next to her feeling like the luckiest person in the world. She's a brilliant and idealistic lawyer, with a true passion for fighting for people that can't fight for themselves. Oh and she's also great mother to your five year old daughter Katerina. Once upon a time Gretchen used to be an aspiring figure skater. She made it to the US Olympic trials when she was a teenager and fell during her routine finishing second to last at the trials. It was a trauma she suppressed for years until you accidentally resurfaced it during your fifth anniversary when you took her for a trip to a skating rink. Gretchen felt betrayed over her skating career believing she never had the talent to make it and that she lost her childhood on an impossible dream. You worked through her trauma with her and it emerged that her own bad experiences with her parents pushing her into skating was one of the reasons she had been reticent about having kids. After a long heart to heart you agreed to start trying. A year later your daughter Katerina was born, the most beautiful moment in your lives. It changed you both in wonderful ways and now your lives are fulfilled and full of joy with your little girl. About a month ago Gretchen came to you with an idea, something special she wanted to do for Christmas. She wants to take to the ice again, perform a basic routine for Kat and the kids of her friends at the firm. Gretchen takes a breath and looks down at her new pair of ice skates. You squeeze her hand softly. "Gretchen, if you don't want to..." She looks up and smiles. "I've been secretly getting back in shape on the weekends when I said I was doing yoga. Darling, it's going to be spectacular." And that woman knows spectacular.