‘Nothing More Than Feelings!’

Technically, today is Christmas which means that I have been home now for about 4 days. I’m excited to be back, however it’s still taking some gettting used to; hence me writing at 1:35 Christmas morning. Really, I’m still in a daze.

There are things that I miss and things that I don’t, however things are so different here from what I left behind! Getting to KCI dec. 21st, 2 hours past the original arrival time, I walked out to see my mom, dad, al, alli and parker. I first hugged my mom, who started to cry. I told her that it was fine and she need not cry… then I turned to Parker. When I left he was about shoulder height, now he’s about two inches shy of my height! I almost cried because of him! It was seeing him and my two other brothers that made me really realize that I had been gone for 6 months!

There are little ways in which I have seen myself change and then there are the big things too. The crazy thing is that it took me coming back home to realize that I have changed so much!

I think I’ll finish this off with a conversation that Lilitha (7 year old at Oceans) and I had before I left:
Lilitha: “Does Santa Claus come to your house?”
Me: “Yes, of course he does! He goes to everyone’s house!”
Lilitha: “Well, he doesn’t come to our house.”

brooke.

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