It has been a good last few weeks at home here.
Finishing our five game home stand with a 4-1 record and we have a huge weekend coming up with a tough one in Fife on Saturday and quick trip down to Cardiff on Sunday to take on the Devils.
Christmas has to be my favourite times of the year. I think it is just everything that comes along
with it. Your first memories as a little kid waking up early on Christmas morning, getting told it's
too early to open presents, so lying in bed wide awake waiting to hear someone else in the
house get up next.
Over the years and as my brothers and I got older, the roles reversed quite a bit. It was my Dad up early, banging around in the kitchen, making the loudest cup of tea ever, made trying to wake us all up. Everyone still has the little kid in them though and I hope the older I get I never forget the things that made all those Christmas memories so special.
To me it is more than just what Santa left, or what you asked for on your Christmas list. As I've
grown up and been living away from home for 16 years, you begin to appreciate the bigger
things a big bit more. Spending time with our families, friends and loved ones. Appreciating what
we have, not what we don't have. Every holiday means something a little different to everyone,
and this is just why Christmas is my favourite of them all.
I remember four years ago when we were in Sweden, Chelsea and I went to Paris for Christmas.
An amazing trip. We only had three days so we did everything we could possibly do in a short
amount of time, we had a blast, right up until our plane arrived back in Stockholm and we
missed our connecting train to home in Orebro. We were stuck in the train station half the night,
in a wind storm, only to get back to our dark apartment at midnight with no Christmas tree, no
lights, no Christmas dinner, nothing at all. We vowed from that day on that no matter what our
schedule or travel plans would be on Christmas break, we would make our home feel like
Christmas, because that's what we both grew up with and until we didn't have it, did we realize
just how much happiness and memories it brought us.
Since then, we have collected Christmas decorations and memento's from every city and country we have lived in.
We keep them in Europe and bring them to each new place we come to. When hockey is done and we settle down back home, it will be great to pull all those out and look back at the fond times we shared
together and Christmas' we've had.
We have a lot games on the schedule before then, so important not to get too far ahead of ourselves and continue to build on the start we have had. I hope for those of you who haven't come to a game, you get the chance to soon, and for the ones that follow us or support as greatly as you always do, we appreciate your continued support.
I wish you all a very happy holidays and much health and good luck in the New Year ahead.
Thanks for checking in,
Keither.
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