The Frenzy of the Holdays

So, My Friends… How is your Christmas and Holiday Season shaping up so far? Making any headway to complete your shopping lists yet?

Have you decorated your home? Or watched any Holiday classics? Or the Hallmark Channel’s syrupy, predictable movies, with the repetitive story lines, where boy meets girl, she hates him, he has a dog, and she falls in love with him at the end?

Or, how about the unending same 150  holiday songs you have heard constantly since Halloween? Are you tired of them?

Yes, My Friends. It is that time of year again, where we start planning in July to make it the easiest Holiday ever in our lives. And yet, it seems even with all that prep, it is already more stressful than it was last year.

Maybe it’s because Thanksgiving was so late. But, if you are honest with yourself, you know that isn’t true. Thanksgiving comes the last Thursday of November. EVERY YEAR.

Not to add more stress to your lives, but today is already December 3, the Wednesday of the first week of Advent, eleven days before Hanukkah, which begins at sundown on Sunday, December 14, which comes ten days before Christmas Eve. A WHOLE YEAR of stress. All in three weeks.

Not too stressful, right?

Then, Christmas week, the meeting  up of long-missed friends and family, whether you want to see them or not. And finally New Years Eve and Day, which culminates the season of swilling spiked egg nog to help us cope with all that stress.

And what about baking, and rich meals, and Office Christmas Parties wishing good cheer to all? Even if you can’t stand them the rest of the year. 

Isn’t that what this time of year all about? The stressing, the eating, the drinking, the partying. All the prepping, the bright lights. All of it.

And poof… Magically it is suddenly over, done before it had even begun. Leaving us with the cold and darkness of winter. And wishing it hadn’t been so fast.

So, suck it up, Friends, and enjoy all the goodness and happiness the Season has to offer.

After all, it comes around every year, promising and delivering all we hope it would be.