All I really want for Christmas

My kids are nearing 50 and this still hits home...

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Now that big pieces of my heart are living somewhere else most of the time, this list is all I really want for Christmas. 

1. To send my college student and my career kid this text: “what meals do you want me to make for you while you’re home?”

2. My children’s favorite ornaments saved for them to hang on the tree.

3. “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” playing on a repeat loop.

4. To feel like a little kid on Christmas because my big kid is coming home for Christmas.

5. To put fuzzy sheets on a bed that hasn’t been slept in for months.

6. Stockings hung by the chimney with care in hopes that the owners of those stockings soon will be there.

7. To get this text from my child: “heading home.”

8. To bake batches of cookies that never last long enough to get stale.

9. For the number of plates (from the special Christmas dish set) I get out for dinner and the number of people in my immediate family to be the same number.

10. For everyone who calls me “mom” to be asleep under my roof.

11. To make a double batch of pancakes on a Saturday morning…and still run out.

12. More laundry in the basket, more coats hanging by the door, more shoes piled on the mud room floor, more cell phones charging in every outlet not being used by a Christmas light.

13. The sound of my children’s voices laughing together in the same room.

14. To hug my young adults, just because I can.

15. To think to myself that I need to text my child to tell them something…and then realize I can just walk into the living room and tell them in person.

16. To go to bed at night without leaving my phone on because all the people who might need to call me at 3 a.m. are within earshot.

17. To need to buy more milk, more cereal, more bananas, more laundry detergent, more toilet paper, and more—much, much more—pizza.

18. “Silent Night” played in a noisy house.

19. A Christmas movie marathon with the whole cast.

20. Family game night with all the players. 

21. To do everything on our “next time you’re home” list.

And maybe, just for a moment, to forget that my children are home, pass by a room and see them there, and feel like I’ve just found a gift under the tree on Christmas morning that I’d forgotten I asked for but wanted more than anything.

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Source: Facebook - Very Interesting