Highlight of My Christmas.

So I'm home for Christmas.

Home. Its funny how, I don't apprectiate Home until I've actually moved away and found my own home somewhere else. And in all reality, this "new" home of mine isn't really home at all. It doesn't feel like Home; it doesn't have the memories of Home; it doesn't have that familiarity of Home that makes you feel like everything will be okay; it doesn't even smell like home... It's lacking the Home-ness that is required for it to be called MY home. It takes time for a place to become a home. Home doesn't feel like Home until its been lived in, until its built up a good portfolio of stories and memories. Home has squeaks in the floor; dents in the walls; stains in the carpet. A toilet downstairs with a broken handle; a room upstairs that is always either way too hot, or way too cold; a dining room thats always being remodeled; a broken dishwasher, water spots in the kitchen ceiling because the upstairs toilet overflowed 2 years ago... *Sigh* ...thats Home.

So the highlight of my Christmas though, was last night... Seth, Cameron and I stayed up through the early hours of the morning playing Super Nintendo! We broke out the SNES! Haha! That system controlled our lives when we were younger! 1994. We got the SNES with Donkey Kong Country for Christmas in 94. That game revolutionized gaming. Haha! We loved that game, and to this day, we still remember all the secrets and tricks of every level! We may have been a little rusty at actually playing it, but it was still loads of fun! For a couple of hours at least, we got to re-live our childhood. Just hearing the music of the game brought back so many memories! So fun.