Well, Christmas was a month ago and I guess this means the holiday season is truly well and over. But, really, I still don’t feel like taking the Christmas tree down. Feels like I barely got it put up and decorated before the holiday was here and gone. All that work and effort to have to take it down already?
Besides, the lights are all nice and soft & glowy and everything in the living room looks a little bit better when it’s the only light in the room. More elegant, like a room you’d see in a magazine with its tree lit.
And, I don’t know about you but for me, it’s one of the most peaceful things I get to do. Just sit in the living room with only the tree lit and a mug of tea and just watch it sparkle. When I wake up early before work and have the few minutes before rushing to start the day. It’s just not the same to have to turn on the “regular” lights.
But, really, I know what it is.
They always talk about the holiday blues during the holiday season but that’s never when it hits me. The holidays are too full of craziness to have time to get blue. Yeah, being alone sucks a bit but I have so much going on I don’t really have time to notice. It’s when the holidays are over and things get quiet that I have time to notice that I am still alone. That’s when it hits. The prospect of three months of cold and wind and snow and no one to snuggle with and every one staying in because of said weather conditions.
I’ll keep the tree up and pretend we aren’t on the upward slope of three months cooped up in the house. I’ll make the holidays last just a little bit longer before the blues hit.
I’ve had post holiday blues too. before the holidays I had so much to look forward to and presents to buy and decorations to put up. Right after new years though… going back to work… I was terribly depressed. Luckily these past few weeks I’ve been slowing coming out of it. Hope you feel better soon as well!