I'll be home for Christmas...

So if you know me well...you know I LOVE Christmas. I clearly probably got that from my Mom and her love for Christmas and decorating!! I've been listening to Christmas music at home a little but not nearly as much as normal at work (Julia and Lauren and I would blast Christmas in our cubes in DC - ohh the good ol' days!).  But when I hear the song "I'll be home for Christmas"...it has a different meaning to me now and gets me thinking. It was never a question as if I'd be home for Christmas before. Even the year I had to work the day after and wake up at 3am to drive back to DC it still wasn't a question. I always made it home for Christmas of course. But this year was a little questionable back in June when I left for Indonesia. Would my work let me off?? If not is it worth traveling so far for a short time? Will the plane tickets be too expensive? Will I decide to stay in Asia and travel?

Now it's Dec 6th and it's only 9 days away until I leave to go home for Christmas!! I feel so blessed that I will be able to go home and spend time with my family and friends. I couldn't be happier.  I'm so lucky to have such a wonderful family whom I can't wait to see! I feel so thankful for all our traditions at the holidays and so thankful for where I'm from.  Being so far away has made me realize how much I love my hometown and how amazing it is.  And more importantly the people who live in it.  All my immediate family lives in Botetourt/Roanoke except me which makes it even harder to be so far away. But luckily my Mom and Aunt are very tech savvy and keep me updated on ALL of them daily through BBM, email, Facebook and Skype :)

So I plan on continuing to play my new Michael Buble Christmas album on repeat (thanks Aloysuis!) and enjoying my tropical Christmas until next Friday when my flight leaves! Can't wait to see everyone!!