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I love my high school friends so much.

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Christmas

I’m glad that  my family isn’t the only one where the mom and daughters where matching pajamas for Christmas.

Christmas was slightly sparse at the Parks house this year due to the dismal economy we’re living in. However, I did get the phone I’ve been wanting for a few months now, along with Sunshine Cleaning and The Truman Show. There was also a surprise present from Will, the Louisa May Alcott biography that just came out and that I was telling to Beth ONLY A FEW NIGHTS BEFORE that I wanted - so strange.

Anyway, last day working at Rainforest Cafe tomorrow, then Colin will be here, then I’m headed to Miami and then BACK TO EASTERN. I’m so excited to go back to school - break is too long this year

Christmas Eve: Parks Family Style

So, for three Christmas Eves now Beth and I have had to work. This has caused my family to stay home for Christmas. Usually we have dinner, which always ends with a fight between either my dad and sister, my mom and sister, or my mom and dad (I’m the non-confrontational one - go figure). Then we recover and Beth and I get into our matching PJs (I know, I know, but my mom just can’t help her self) and then we all sit down to watch It’s a Wonderful Life. My sister is eighteen and still hasn’t seen the entire movie.

It wasn’t always this way. In fact, I miss the way Christmas Eve used to be. Beth and I would get to sleep in and then we’d spend the first part of the day wrapping all the presents for my extended family members while watching The Muppets’ Christmas Carol. Then, we’d get into our Christmas wear and drive down to my grandma’s for Christmas eve mass with all of my aunts, uncles, and cousins. Then, everyone would go back to my grandma’s house for food and to watch A Christmas Story. Then, we would drive home, seeing all the Christmas lights, and get into our pajamas and watch It’s a Wonderful Life.

I miss spending the holidays with my extended family. Don’t get me wrong, I love my immediate family, but I see them all the time. I didn’t even get to see my relatives at Thanksgiving. The time I spend with my cousins is dwindling, and it saddens me. I feel as though I don’t know them as well as I used to.

Christmas Eve?

Where did you come from? How did you get here so fast???

I can't believe that I've seen two decades come and go in my lifetime already...