Counting down....

The days until I get to see my mom! Only 6! YAY! I can't believe it's been over 2 months since I've seen her. I never would've thought I'd be happy that she now lives 4 hours from me. It's funny how when you've had the same routine for most of your life that when something big changes you wonder how you'll get through it. If you would've asked me 2 years ago if I thought I'd ever live away from my family I would've told you no. If you would've told me my parents would live 4 hours away from me some day, I would've told you it was too far. My mother would've said the same thing. After 2 months of being 23 hours apart, those 4 hours seem like nothing. I can get to her within hours now if I need to. I feel a lot better now that they've moved. I've never had to separate myself from anyone really so that move was extremely hard. For a while I've felt pretty alone up here but I'm happy to say that I'm starting to not feel like that so much any more. My brother's on his way to see me and then my parents will get here on Friday. They'll stay until Christmas Day and then they'll have to head back in the afternoon. I can't wait till they get here. I have so many things that I want to show my mom. Mike's mom will be flying in to visit for a bit on Dec.29th.

I've had a really busy week. I had planned on doing a lot of Christmas shopping while Cassie and I were in New York. Since we didn't I had to do it all this week. I'm telling you, I spent a good 3 hours wrapping gifts yesterday. I'm SO glad that it's done. It seemed to be never ending this year. I'm sure it's just me. I'm having a hard time getting in the Christmassy mood. I'm used to doing a lot of baking and shopping with my mom around the holidays. I thought about her a lot while I was out by myself this week. I'm looking forward to doing some shopping with her next weekend. I don't really have anything left to buy but I know she she does. Hopefully the weather will be good. It seems like every time my dad comes to visit he brings the rain with him. I don't mind the rain but I hope he leaves the ice and snow in West Virginia. They live up in the mountains so they seem to get a lot of it. I can't wait to take the kids up there. We'll definately be doing a lot of sledding, tubing, ect....

I'm off....I'm stitching something for my mom for Christmas and I really must get it done :).