bang, all at once

This time around I've had difficulty getting into the Christmas spirit. There are a lot of contributing factors, my estrangement from Dave, the fact that my family is now split in three separate entities (my dad and I; my mom and brother; and my sister in TN), the lack of snow for almost the entire month. So I was surprised to wake up this morning feeling like a little kid in nervous anticipation of Christmas morning. My dad and I are going over to my mom's for Christmas day, for gifts and dinner. I think I'm more excited to see my younger brother than anything else (except maybe the presents) because I haven't really seen him since Messengers let out in early Nov, except for a few minutes at church now and then.

As I said in my previous post, today there are two Christmas eve services. My dad doesn't work today so he said he'd take me (if he comes in with me is something else entirely) but this should be enough to boost me completely into holiday cheer. Fingers crossed.