About this time of the season, most of us are just about ready to hang up our holiday cheer for another year...
- Some of us would (secretly?) like to drop the kids off a little early back at school - like today...even though it doesn't start again until Monday.
- The cranberries in your "tasteful decor" have dried up and taken on a decidedly different look than when the season began, and they might have even begun to assume a certain pungent and not so pleasant aroma.
- Fido's once darling Hannukah "do" is now a mange of tangled fur and wrapping paper, and you wish you'd never let that cloying groomer talk you into all those fussy bows and bells. What were you thinking?
- Your homemade Christmas toffee tradition has caused the family to gain a collective 50 pounds, and there's still another tubful in the garage - who do you think you are - Giada?
- The house looks like it's been ridden hard and put up wet, thank you. And if your eldest asks you one more time what she can have for lunch, you just might have to remind her (one more time...) that there are kids (in Zimbabwe, China, Pakistan...) who don't even have refrigerators to stand in front of for half an hour to contemplate that deceision...
- Could we go just one day without the dog eating something she's not supposed to and vomiting - on my leg - and favorite shoes?
- Is there ever going to be a day when there isn't laundry to be done?
- And could my extended family go one round of holidays without having the plague whip through? Seriously, you'd think my sister's family all drank caster oil or something!
- And this last, do you think I could have a party without Mother Nature "blessing us" with snow or ice on the day of the party? How about next week for book club, please? Please?
In spite of it all, however, I find myself waxing poetic. Yep. Call me crazy. In fact, I'm trying to decide whether I should be taking all of my decorations down this weekend or waiting one more, so we can enjoy them one last time next Thursday at book club. What do you think?
So, here's what crazy me is going to miss:
- The sweet scent of my Frasier Fir tree
- Eggnog
- Time spent with family (well, most of it anyway!)
- Eating out
- Eating period!
- Going out for coffee with friends
- Baking (yes, I really do enjoy that unlike my White Trash counterpart over at White Trash Mom!...)
- Sitting in the living room with all the lights out except those on my Christmas tree...transcendental experience, I'm telling you!
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Time off work!
Ah, well, that's the holidays for you. They must come to an end. I kinda' go through the post holiday blues every year. Well, my Big Strong Man calls it my winter blues. In any case, Happy New Year to all of you. We actually had a pretty rough couple of months, healthwise, with one of our kids to round out 2008. With that said, I wish you peace and health in the new year, and May 2009 bring all that you are hoping for.
Balanced Babe - Molly Wendland






