Hello and Merry Christmas! This week has been an amazing week. I took some time off and really just enjoyed the Christmas with my parents.They came to celebrate with me in New York, which made it a quite different but a nice Christmas.We figured it was the best they came here, since I am going home next week anyways!We had such a good time, I was able to take them around to different places and to avoid the typical tourist things since we have done them before. We had food, did some shopping and just enjoyd ourselfs! So sad they left today, I do not think you can have better parents.
It is nice to feel a part of home when you live so far from your childhood home, even though this is home now and my friends here is like a family, it is still something else when parents are visiting.
On one hand I were able to mix my family from home with my family from here, and we had such a good time and it is so important to cherish those moments, and after living away for years, I do not take those moments for granted anymore. Because I do feel we sometimes take our parents or friends or home for grantes. That was what I think did the Christmas a bit different from back home and here. When we are home, we are surrounded by gifts, food and decorations, friends and family Everything is pretty much good! Having Christmas in New York, you are faced with a lot of sadness and a lot of people that do not have it like we do in Norway. It gives you a perspective on life. It is not even a few that struggles, it is many.