Days Until Christmas

As the holiday season approaches, I keep hearing that question, “How many days until Christmas?” It does not even seem to be remotely possible that we have gone through another year. I can still picture last New Years Eve and now we are planning this years’. There is something horribly wrong with that image. That must be why we are told to live every day as if it were our last. That seems to be the advertising posted on the side of the train that continues to roll ever faster down the hill side.

There is always that bright spot when you get to a new year. For some reason, January offers that feeling of new hope and possibility. There is that anticipation in the air, as we enter the beginning of the year, which seems to evaporate completely by November. Of course this may just be me or the changing of the seasons and the adjustment of being able to go outside in a tee-shirt as opposed to a parka.

So as the number of days until Christmas flow past like an ice cube in a hot skillet, you will have to make the decision of who to buy for and how much. Those careful shoppers have been steadily picking up things all year long and planning who and what. My wife and I have that pretty much mapped out. I even have her Christmas presentation sketched out. Nothing bought of course but “what and how” I am presenting are pretty well in the bag. Now it is the constant running and non-stop parties that start right after Thanksgiving. So enjoy your turkey (we are having grilled pork tenderloin) and dressing and try to enjoy what is left of the year.

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Cobb