User blog comment:Roosevelt the Hunter/Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!/@comment-26358727-20171222155603/@comment-26358727-20171222233859

That sounds wonderful! I grew up with most of my family within town, so I saw everyone over the holidays. We visted with my father's side over Christmas Eve and my mother's side on Christmas Day, but over the years things changed. More people began moving away, and now I've got family scattered from coast to coast. At home I've got a relatively small household (myself and my twin sister, plus our mother), so we tack onto the end of a bigger family gathering for the feast. (

For what it's worth, I hope you do get out to visit your family once you graduate from high school. Throughout most of my life I lived a short walk from my grandparents on my father's side, but once my grandmother passed my grandfather moved out to his native Nova Scotia. I've seen him two or three times since, when he comes by for a visit, but he's pretty stationary out there now and since graduating from high school I've been too busy with my own immediate commitments to make the trip. It's super unfortunate to lose touch with the important people in your life due to unpredictable circumstances, so I think it would be a very meaningful experience to take the trip for them!