Am i the only one that believes that as I get older, time seems to pass a lot faster than it used to, say, when I was a child. Back then, it seemed forever for the holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, new Years) to come around. Now, it’s almost the blink of an eye that summer is over, and suddenly we’re in the throes of cooking, baking, and gift shopping for the upcoming holidays (not to mention, stocking up the bar for the inevitable parties, leading up to and including New Years Eve).

As suddenly as they’re here, then they’re gone and we remove all of the decorations we patently placed inside and outside our homes, [lacing decorations back in their boxes and storing them for another year (which comes around even. more quickly!). In the meantime, we enjoy the sense of wonder we can see in children’s eyes, remembering what that was like and how our parents must have had similar thoughts.

The distance between Thanksgiving and Christmas seems like a huge chasm compared to the time between Christmas and New Years. Still. all in all, it seems like we are all sprinting toward the end of the year and afterwards ill seem like being on vacation. We’ll be back at work with our holiday stories (some bad, but mostly good I suspect) and after a few days, settle back into our normal (?) routine pushing the hectic past couple of months out of mind. At most we might hear about soeone’s neighbor who hasn’t taken down their outdoor decorations yet.

There are always those that will begin planning for the next season, shopping the sales of decorations, thinking how what they just purchased will add to the joy of the season. It’s why I have such a investment in Christmas, and have my electric bill on autopay.