Tis the Season

There is no doubt it is the holidays. What little time you think you have to be ready to celebrate with family and friends begins to feel a bit like a Christmas ribbon noose, tightening as each day passes until you are gasping for one moment of free time which you promptly fill with something else that has to be done.

I have given up trying to be “ready” for the holidays. I bought Christmas cards that I probably will not send and I proclaimed this morning that “I am not making cookies!” I just end up eating them and I just don’t want to do that or have that stress. We have plenty of goodies here no one will starve or pass out from a lack of sugar. The holidays are coming whether I am ready or not, so I would rather just take it down a notch or two.

The song goes “Tis the season to be Jolly falalalalala”, and that is what I want to be. I don’t want to be bloated from too many cookies or overwhelmed by a “have to” annual agenda this year. I am giving everyone fair warning that if you are expecting the usual you will be disappointed. I am not Scrooge and I am not giving up on traditions, I am just slowing down the pace enough so that I can be jolly, after all tis the season right?

The trick will be that I actually follow through with this plan. There is always a chance at the last minute the desire for a homemade cookie or my guilt over not sending cards kicks in and falalalala turns into FLAAAAAAA as I become a high speed blender of activity trying to make up for my non stress plan. All I know is that on December 26^th, non of this will matter for another 365 days so whatever happens I know that in a week and a half the season will be over and life’s pace will even out.

Awww, now I’m a little sad and feeling like I need a Christmas cookie and I should probably send out a card or two to loved ones that are out of state…FALALALALA (ribbon tightening… feeling the holiday noose…) and so it begins, tis the season!