Its the most wonderful time of the year?

The period of time between thanksgiving and christmas is my favorite time of the year. Its so festive and fun and I just want to dive in and celebrate. I want to make christmas cookies and pumpkin pie and decorate. I want to buy people gifts and watch christmas movies and read christmas books. I want to spend some time with my savior and celebrate his birthday. There is only one minor problem.. I have SO MUCH WORK TO DO! The end of the semester stinks, its either right before Christmas where I'm so excited about the holidays or it is right before summer when I just want to be outside. I am always so unmotivated. I work my butt of the whole semester and fizzle out at the end. It is very frustrating. I just want to go home for Christmas and be done with it all but first comes 3.5 weeks of classes, two take home finals, two actual finals, a 12 page research paper, like 1000 pages of reading and about 10 greek and hebrew quizes. This is utterly insane. But such is the life of a student and after three years of college (last spring being the epitome of a crazy stressful end of the semester) I should be used to it and I know I can get through it.

Where are you Christmas?
Why can't I find you?

All is not lost. I will make it to my blessed holiday even if I don't have anywhere to sleep while I am on Long Island (thats another story for another day).

We're not that far from Bethlehem.
Where all our hope and joy begins.