I know I am lucky to have a big family, but it gets too intense for me over the holidays, and I dont get a break. We celebrate x-mas from 24th of december through to the 27th here in Norway where I am at. Big-time partying also... all in all a good break in the middle of the very dark winters we have here. But still I am just not in shape for all this merry-making! And it makes me feel ekstra lonely when everybody around me is so happy. (Well,, maybe they are not, but it sure looks that way...)