Christmas At Home...

I may have left home at 18, but for years I travelled back for Christmas - at the beginning it was for a few weeks at a time while I was on a break from University, but over the years that time got shorter and shorter as work and other commitments ate into that time.

And then I got my own family and my own home, and now Christmas is spent here, building new memories and traditions, hoping that one day, maybe for at least a few years, this will be the place that my kids come home to too.

But just because I’m here for Christmas doesn’t mean I’m not back there too, because home is where the heart is, and part of my heart never left there.…