So, here we are in December and I am planning for Christmas. It breaks my heart to know that the man I love has not had a traditional Romanian Christmas in almost two decades. I have decided that since last year we celebrated my way (for the most part since he refused to spend Christmas day with my family but we had Christmas Eve with them and did our thing Christmas night), we should honor his traditions this year. I have spent countless hours researching what recipes should be made but I can’t find any real information. I am hoping that a few Romanians will stumble across my little blog and give me some advice so I can make this Christmas wonderful for D. I have recipes for sarmale, bors cu perisoare, mamaliga balls, mamliga, and of course cozonac. These links seem to be the best recipes I can find as there is not a lot of information on Romanian tradition on the web. If anyone has any advice for other things I can do or prepare or better recipes than what I have found, I would be so grateful if you would help me out. I really want to make this a special year as it might be the last one we spend together if I stay when he moves back to Romania. Also if there are any cd’s of traditional Romanian Christmas music that would be helpful as well. He tells me it’s too much work and I shouldn’t bother (which from him translates to an American girl can’t handle it) and my Romanian is extremely limited (to say the least) or I would find a way to write and ask his mother. I’ll be sure to let you know how it all turns out. Please, please leave me comments on anything that might help me out. Thanks in advance. 
Update:
12/13/20008
Christmas will not be going Romanian this year or any other. Given the events of the last couple of days I have come to realize that I can not stand to be around D any longer. He will be moving out before Christmas so I will be spending the holiday with my family, following our traditions. I guess all is as it should be. I still feel sorry for him that he will be alone on Christmas, but my mother keeps reminding me that he made his bed and now he gets to lie in it…alone. She is very excited that he will be moving out and I will be moving on.
