TAKING DOWN THE TREE

We vowed to take the Christmas tree down on New Year's Day.  But you know what happens when you are busy making plans - inevitably, something else captures your attention.  In this case, a new electronic gadget.  More on that another time.  It's hard to strip the tree, knowing that the treasured ornaments will spend another year wrapped up and tucked away in a darkened closet.  (It isn't to my credit that I become attached to inanimate objects.  I'm sentimental - to a fault.)  I DID manage to groom and walk the dog yesterday and work on a baby shower gift and make a New England clam chowder, from scratch.  But the tree - it's still waiting.


I'm noticing that ALL of my seed catalogs arrived the day before New Year's Eve.  Tempting.  But the tree is still waiting...


I walk around the house, touching my favorite ornament here, rearranging a small stack of holiday gifts there.  

Why is it so especially hard THIS year to dismantle Christmas?   I'm thinking about mortality a lot, and fussing.  I wonder where we will be this time next year, or even if there will BE a next year.  Holding onto Christmas is not going to drive the Grim Reaper from the door.  I'm sick of suffering and worrying about this stuff.  I need a new attitude.  And a weight loss!  And to drink more water.  And to tackle that damnable tree!


It's still waiting ...

Someone else is waiting as well - I ask you, which would YOU choose?  Or even, COULD you choose?!!!