christmas eve day

The only thing I want right now is to be home. No matter how much holiday music I play on iTunes and how much I pretend there is snow outside, christmas doesn't feel like christmas without family, the big ham or turkey or lamb dinner followed by pavlova, the wisconsin winter and that ridiculous christmas tree made out of lights that mom always insists on putting up.

... and Bing Crosby is singing, "I'll be home for Christmas... if only in my dreams..."