Yes, you may call me the Grinch.
Cuz that’s how I feel. I’ve done most of the Christmas shopping, but that’s about as far as the Christmas “spirit” has taken me. (And why is it called “spirit”? I digress.) We are now at essentially 10 days until Christmas and what have we done for decorating? We have hung the outside lights. Yup, that’s it. No tree up, no stockings up, no presents wrapped, nothing. If I thought Sophia would let us get away with not putting the tree up, I’d definitely do it.
I want to be in the holiday spirit. I want to talk about Santa, Jesus (a little), sing carols, make cookies, hang the stockings, re-decorate the tree (after the kids pull them all off of it), etc. But, I’m just not. And I don’t know why. Perhaps it’s because I’m just plain tired these days. Perhaps because we don’t have snow (which is always a signal to be that Christmas is coming). Or maybe it’s because my parents have decided to change Christmas up a bit this year. I don’t know what it is, but I’d like it to go away. I’d like the “spirit.”
