You're finally packed, the car's loaded, and then feelings hit you. You've been so excited to see your family, your pets, and to sleep in your own bed. Then you realize you're actually going to miss what has become your home away from home. You won't miss your 9 a.m. class or having to do your own laundry, but the thought of eating cheesy bread at 2 in the morning without your roommate is a difficult pill to swallow.
1. Giving your brain a break: With the stress of finals week behind you, you can finally enjoy some much needed rest and relaxation.
2. Feeling the love: Your mom stocked the refrigerator with all of your favorites and your dirty laundry disappears, but is returned to you freshly washed and folded. It's like some sort of magic trick.
3. Catching up with family: Seeing your parents is great, until they're on your back about your final grades. Seeing your relatives is really nice too, until they ask about that boy you were seeing the last time you saw them.
4. Seeing your pets: Because there’s nothing better than a little snuggle with your dog after a long day.
5. Food: You've developed a strong appreciation for home-cooked meals and with the holidays coming up, there's an abundance of food, which means there will be plenty of your favorite leftovers that you can enjoy for the rest of the week.
6. Take-out: When it comes to take-out, depending on your location, the number of options take a serious nose dive. The real problem comes when you're craving a warm slice of pizza and Pizza Bono is hours away.
7. Free time: When else is binge watching an entire tv series on Netflix in three days acceptable? You can finally read the book that's been collecting dust for the past four months or test out all the face mask recipes you found on Pinterest.
8. The rules: Your parents expect you to follow their rules, but now you're so used to setting your own rules: this can be messy. Getting back into the routine of checking in with them will take a few days.
9. Losing access to your friends (and their closets): Seeing them would take planning and effort. We would have to travel a lot farther than across the living room to watch Kylie Jenner make-up tutorials together and no, I'm not going to drive six hours to borrow your sweater even if it's my favorite.
10. Being reunited with your friends from high school: You struggled to fit an entire week’s worth of information into the five minutes that you have to talk to each other and now you have over a month to reconnect and tell each other everything.
11. Siblings: You miss spending time with them while you're at school, but by day three of being home it all comes back to you when you notice that your little sister wore your favorite jeans to school without asking.
12. There's no place like home: The comfort of being home can't be beat. You probably had no clue how much you missed showering without flip flops and having a room larger than a shoe box.
