that makes me feel lonely and sucked dry of all life and energy.  Except at night when the lights are all twinkly and there’s a lot of nice darkness and I’m with my favorite family and we have a lot of laughter and reading and presents everywhere and way too much food that has way too much sugar.   And we argue about books a lot and make really rude jokes about Indiana and laugh obnoxiously in a nice way because our sister + husband live here and we love them, we just think they have poopy state-taste.  :)

So far in the past week since I’ve been on break I’ve read three books, had a sleepover, helped my mom finish sewing three dresses for my little sisters, went to two Christmas programs, made peppermint fudge and jam filled cream cheese cookies, ate an obscene amount of food, frolicked in the snow, went Christmas caroling, cleaned like a maniac, slept like a narcoleptic, missed people, saw people, talked with people, laughed with people, missed people some more… yeah.  
I couldn’t have planned it better. :)

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii love my family!  
The end.