I’ll be home for Christmas
I had my nose pressed against the window as we came out of the clouds and the city of Ottawa appeared beneath me. I smiled as I saw fields of snow beneath me. After hours of traveling, glossy-eyed and sore, I touched down in Canada, in snow.
As I sit here and watch the Christmas lights turn on, house by house, in the dusk of the street behind me, I know that there is no where else I would rather be at this moment. I can’t imagine not being here, in my parents house with my cat asleep at my feet and nanaimo bars in the fridge.
I’ll see the people I missed, who missed me, one by one over this week and the next, and I’ll know that I belong. That I am home, for now.
But “home”… well, that’s another post entirely.
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By Eleni, December 16, 2009 @ 3:55 am
Nice. I can’t wait to go back home this weekend. I hope there’s snow in New England. Less reliable there than Canada, but a good chance, at least.
By Sebastian, December 16, 2009 @ 4:36 am
My song-lyric title was better! It even had a pun in it! Kind of!
You know, we’re due to get snow here in the UK too… :P
By Laura, December 16, 2009 @ 5:57 am
I’M ON MY WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Christine Sweeton *The Chris*, December 17, 2009 @ 7:59 pm
I’m glad you are back. Can’t wait to visit you in the UK in the summer though and see your home there.
By Shaun, December 17, 2009 @ 9:07 pm
We had a wonderful snow/hail mix today and some of it is still on the ground which is a very good sign for things to come :)
By Lea, December 19, 2009 @ 7:29 pm
That’s really the hard part about growing up.