Christmas Vacation Blues

I remember when Chelsie was going through her teenager-I- don't- need- my- family stage. It was Christmas vacation and we were all there for Christmas. I don't think there were that many times that we were all there together, it seems wierd doesn't it? That the years she probably remembers were mostly when all of us were out of the house. But anyway, I remember when it was time for everyone to go home and we were all talking downstairs and she just burst into tears and ran upstairs. I went up to talk with her and she was just hysterically crying. She was so sad that Cory and Tiff were leaving again. Shay. Teash, and I were all living there (in IF and Rexburg). She said, "I feel so good when we are all together and I feel broken when we are not." Her goal then was to keep us together and also it is now. Just in another way. I miss her.