wOOt! it's Christmas Eve!! and actually, it's only 35 minutes till Christmas, and it's already Christmas in Michigan!! how exciting. i forget how much i actually do like the holiday season. it's been nice so far, that's for sure. i've really enjoyed spending time with my family and just my parents too. i'm so glad i came home for a week. it's been good. :)

yesterday my grandma and her boyfriend tom came up and also my uncle bill, who we weren't sure was coming. so we all sat around our dining room table and had drinks and talked and laughed. it was so much fun. stuff like that is my favorite. :) then today, we went to my uncle bob and aunt sarah's house for our Kubacki Family Christmas, which was also very nice. they have a really cute cat! but totally not cuter than Brewer. and definitely not as nice. and a little chubbier. but she was still cute. anyway, we had good food, and good fun, and some good presents too! then we watched a Christmas story, which is always a great holiday movie. especially since the little boy is just like my uncle bill when he was a kid. so my Mom always gets all nostalgic: "oh bill!! that was me!!! always picking up your glasses when you got in fights so you wouldn't get in trouble for breaking them!!!" silly Mom. good times. and now my grandma and tom and uncle bill leave tomorrow morning, and i will just have Christmas with my Mom and Joe and hang out. which will be nice. i almost feel like i haven't even gotten enough time with them! which is weird. because usually i am sick of them by this time. i'm just more sick of being bored. it's ok though, i'll see my mom soon enough, then i'll see them both for spring break in florida, and then i'll see them for graduation and probably a whole lot after graduation when i am moving. i love my parents. they're the bestest! so our nice little family of 3 Christmas will be all cozy and warm :)

but i also get to pack. pack up all my nice clean laundry and all my nice new presents, shove it all in my car, grab my silly kitty, and GET THE HECK OUT OF HERE!!!! can't wait. my plan is to leave between 9 and 10 on monday morning, hopefully closer to 9. which would put me back in east lansing by 7 at the latest as long as the roads are decent, and it is looking like they will be. i know i hate this drive. i am dreading it. i always feel so awful for Brewer because he can't eat or drink and he can't go potty in the car. well he could, but he just doesn't, so 7-8 hours without that just makes me feel like a bad Mom. :( but he'll get through it. he'll be fine. and i'm not gonna lie, it's gonna be tough for me to get through it too! it takes so FUCKING LONG because the drive is through the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!!! ugh. but what's at the other end makes it all so much more than worth it. so i'm excited. :) more than excited. fucking ecstatic. and everyone knows that by now haha...oh well...so i like to share my enthusiasm with everyone i know...so what!!?? :)

less than 48 hours left on the countdown. i almost can't believe it is here! but i'm so glad it is. kisses will be the best Christmas present of all :)