On missing Christmas in Texas

This will be our 5th Christmas in Japan, and I'm feeling really, really homesick.  I would like nothing more than to be in Texas, celebrating this wonderful time of year with family and friends--to exchange presents, to spend time chatting, to eat amazing Tex-Mex foods together, to go to church together, to be thankful together.  Instead, I'm here in Japan trying my best to do all of these things on my own.  I'm trying to give my kid the best Christmas I can, but it's hard to do when there are no outside signs that it is Christmas time.  Remember, most Japanese people are not Christian; therefore, Christmas isn't really celebrated here.  It's a day like any other.

So to all my peeps back in Texas, enjoy the great tasting food and the wonderful friends and family members you get to hold tight and the wonderful Christmas lights and the fanciful decorations and the love you feel as you celebrate Christmas, because right now I would give anything for that!