Today marks the first day of studying throughout my very long week for finals(Mine are all on Monday, bummer!) By this time next week I will be done and enjoying my Winter Break from school. While I'm writing this blog I'm listening to Christmas music on Pandora, this really gets me into the spirit of the holidays. Around this time of the year I feel that everything is perfect and that nothing can go wrong, I think that's the way the music makes me feel. I love it!
While I was walking to class today I was thinking about how I've changed over the years and how different things matter to me now when they didn't before. I was thinking that now I look forward to this year even more now than last year. It's not the presents that I look forward to, it's the small things that I cherish. Like picking on my brother and getting on my moms nerves, having dinner at home and especially waking up Sunday mornings to my dad's wonderful papas(potatoes), sausage and egg burritos, decorating the house, and even putting the lights on our house. When I used to walk home from school during these times and I knew that as soon as I walked in the door my mom would be decorating for Christmas, I would start to smell Christmas. The smell is basically rain combined with the smell of a Christmas tree. I love it and when I go home from school to this day I can still smell it. It warms my heart.
Year after year I look forward to this year more and more. I'm excited to go home and see all of my friends and family and spend 3 lovely weeks with them. I don't think this feeling will ever go away. Even as I grow older and eventually get married and have a family of my own I'm pretty sure I will be one of those parents that goes decorating crazy for Christmas, hopefully my kids feel the same way, if not then oh well more Christmas cheer for me! I decided that this year I would send out Christmas cards. My family has done them before, but not for awhile and so I decided that it would be a good way to show people that you are thinking of them at this time of year. This is great especially if they are currently going through things. I can't wait to mail them and receive the usual ones in the mail. Good times are yet to come!
Til Next Time!
This is my color changing penguin I bought at Target, it now resides on my desk giving my room some Christmas GLOW!
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