Home sweet home

Day 11.

Tensions are high in my household. Around Christmastime there is always an added pressure to be together and happy—which usually results in the opposite. However, there is an intensified desire for everything to go perfectly since I am home. Going away to college has made things different and my family wants to maximize the fun the short time I am with them. It’s day 2 of being home and it is as if they are all vying for my attention. I move to a room and they all follow. I try to have a conversation with one; it becomes a competition of who can get in what they want to say over the others. I’m sure all of you experience the same thing when home visiting from college.

It’s especially difficult for my little 8 year old sister. At school, they have some free drawing time during the day. My mom found what she had been drawing. They were all pictures starring me and TCU. Everything is about the power of purple and frogs, or things about me, or both. So sweet. She misses me so much and wants to have me all to herself whenever I am home. When other people try to say something to me, she wants to be in the middle of everything. If she’s not, the result is screaming and proclamations of “No one cares about me!!!”

So the drama is high here in the house. I will try to please everyone here at home As the Clock Ticks…