When the "kids" come home for the holidays

Hoggirl
Fri, 10 Jan 2025 22:41:16 +0000

Our ds has always been good about coming, “home,” for the holidays. Even when we moved to Florida away from his home. But, I can tell he is so much happier visiting us now that we are back in the town where he graduated from high school.

His junior and senior years of high school and first three years of college, we hosted a Christmas party for the high school friends. The last one was in 2017. We moved back here in April, and as we were making plans for the holidays, I told him we could do that again. He took me up on that offer kind of last minute, but we had lots of fun scrambling around and getting everything together. It was a bit crowded even though we had fewer people than we used to since our place is smaller and not all the kids still live in the area or were home. We had two other parent sets come as well. Ds attended a small, charter high school and honestly the kids and parents are all pretty tight. It felt like we’d never stopped having the party seven years later!

I’m thrilled that we are in the same time zone after ten years of being two and then three time zones apart from him. He isn’t exactly close, but he is closER and driving is an option which hasn’t been the case in a decade.

He still spends a decent amount of time with us, but I’m glad he can also reconnect with high school friends who either still live here or happen to be in town for the holidays. He was kinda stuck with us when we lived in Florida.