You notice I didn’t say season. The Holiday begins at some point before Halloween and continues through Valentines Day. For a while I was calling it Christmaween (this is when you try to pick up Halloween candy prior to Halloween and discover it has already been replaced with Christmas candy. You’d get away with it except the wrappers have holly sprigs and are either red or green. If you want generic candy you might want to stock up in August.
I don’t know about you but my extended family is notorious for scheduling holidays around our own schedule – so while the rest of the world is celebrating Christmas on December 25 we are celebrating a mini Christmas complete with tree decoration and gifts on the day after Thanksgiving (because everyone is here and they won’t be on Christmas day). Our neighbors celebrated Thanksgiving the day before Thanksgiving because they both had to work on the holiday itself. (Hospital patients require care every day of the year).
In the interest of full disclosure we will probably celebrate at least three Christmas’s before we are done (and will fold Hanukkah in as well).
I was wondering about this concentration of holidays. Remember we continue on to New Years and then Valentines day.
All of these holidays are an obvious ploy to keep us as distracted as possible from the depressing and increasingly short days. To some degree it works.
Thank God.
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