Baby Its Cold Outside

Brrr! I write my first post of the New Year in the twinkling glow of Christmas lights with a hot chocolate by my side to try and warm up.

We just arrived home this morning from visiting my family for the Holidays in the States.  We made it home just before Christmas in a blizzard and left in one as well! The weather is freezing here in England too, but sadly no snow!  So it looks like school is going to start back tomorrow! Poo! Where has the time gone, it seems like only yesterday we left, with the crunch of snow underfoot as our cab took us to the airport to go home?

I hope that everyone has had a wonderful, peaceful and magical filled Holiday season! Its not over yet, we still have Epiphany! My Mom always left her decorations up for "Little Christmas", and somehow I always convinced her (wink! wink!) that if she kept them up a little longer it would help me do better on my exams if I could just see the happy glow of a Christmas light while I studied.

She always did! What a good Mom! I have a hard time taking mine down after January 6th and since I am always sad to have to say "Goodbye" to my family until the next time we say "Hello", I think my decorations might be staying up a little bit longer too....

(Image by Belle & Boo)

Home for the Holidays

Unfortunately, we do not get to go "home" for Thanksgiving, but we celebrate with each other in our house. It doesn't seem quite the same at times; no shuffling around in your pajamas, no breakfast casserole, no Macy's Day Parade on TV and no parents in the kitchen laughing and talking while they make stuffing and get ready to roast the bird.

We make our own holiday memories here in England. I still prepare a Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings and pumpkin pie for dessert of course! Some years we have had friends round to join in with the festivities, but, this year, it will be just the two of us, a romantic Thanksgiving.

It wouldn't be the season if I didn't get to watch Home for the Holidays. What a movie! My family and I love this movie! There are moments you can relate to, even if you, like me, are close with your family, you can relate it to other family members.

There is a great scene after the parents pick their daughter up from the airport and as they are driving home, with the mom chatting away in the back they pass another car with a fellow "kid"; his mom is leaning over the seat going on and on, and the two "kids" just stare at each other through the car windows, in this perfect moment of understanding. So much is said with that look.
I know this look. My husband and I have been with some people where that look between us gets used a lot. This movie sums up all the craziness of this one day. Days, that some people use not to be thankful for, or to see the blessings in, but as a forum for themselves to just act as nutty as a fruitcake.

So to everyone, who loves going home (I do!) and for those who are ready for Thanksgiving to be over with already and back in their own homes away from their families, this movie is for you!