"I'll have a bluuuuue Christmas without yooouuu..."

This was the song that was running through my head as I was thinking about all the Christmas traditions I'll be missing this year.

The good news is that Lucas and I are finally going to visit his family in Colombia (no matter how much we had to pay for the tickets) but the bad news is that I'll be leaving my parents and family for the first Christmas EVER! I don't want to grow up and make grown up decisions!

As soon as we bought the tickets Lucas began his celebration. This will be his first Christmas with his family in a very long time. But I started balling... I mean hysterically! It was bad. Lucas was on the phone with his mom and I felt so bad for crying because I want them to know that I am exciting about spending Christmas with them but it is depressing to miss Christmas with my family. Christmas is my favorite time of the year and I don't like changes to our traditions so it is going to be pretty rough. I know my mom is really upset about it.

But in the future, we'll have children and we'll stay here for Christmas. This will probably be our last chance to have Christmas with his family (as I am not willing to pay Santa's shipping and luggage fees on the way there and double on the way back). So, I'm sucking it up and doing my wifely duty. I do think I'll have fun and enjoy it but I'm hoping to make it through Christmas Day without hyperventilating.

Wish me luck! I will be preparing myself from now til then.

16 days in Colombia! Wow!