As someone who was brought up never celebrating Christmas, I am uncertain as to why I would feel a little left out this year. In fact it isn’t a celebration that I have wholeheartedly embraced because of my upbringing, but it is also not something I detest completely.

In my view Christmas is all about family and my family is not here. They are miles away and will more than likely get together and have some sort of family gathering. Trouble is that when I lived in the UK I hated these family get-togethers. They were boring for a teenager who just wanted to hang out with their mates or go down the pub. How times have changed!

So I have presumed that my desire to go to one of these sometimes war some gatherings is due to old age. Never thought I would get to this point but don’t we all confuse youth with reality? This is reality. It’s the desire to be with family and the need to feel that connection with people who have known you all your life. By moving to the USA I attempted to steal youth and keep it hostage…Sigh…

So this is Christmas…