Silly Mom Thoughts

In my Eclectic Christmas Playlist entry, I failed to mention that there is one Christmas song I do not like.  As long as I can remember, I have disliked We Wish You A Merry Christmas because it always makes me feel sad and let down. I realized recently why I feel that way about this song: It is always the last Christmas song I hear. It’s the last song in movies like A Christmas Story, it’s the last song I hear when the radio stations go back to playing their normal non-Christmas music. Despite it’s cheery message, it is a symbol to me of the end of anticipation, the end to a wonderful, joyous season and the beginning of a long, wet, dark several months before Spring.

I hate when Christmas ends abruptly. It’s better now than it used to be, because at least now radio stations play Christmas music until the new year, where before there wasn’t a Santa tune to be heard on the 26th. But still, I hate when all decorations, every shred of Christmas is taken down immediately after Christmas Day. There’s a trememdous build-up to Christmas Day, starting before Thanksgiving, and I feel so down when it all magically disappears in one day.

I can’t simply quit Christmas cold-turkey, I need to be holiday weaned. Take down a Christmas decoration here one day, there another. Watch the last Christmas movie and tuck it away for another year. Slowly go from all Christmas music, to a few songs a day, and then none at all. Easy does it as far as holiday weaning is concerned.

This isn’t to say I want to have lights up year-round, or a pathetic, dead Christmas tree up in February. I want everything down by the end of the first week of January, but I can’t take it all down on the 26th. It’s just too sad to me. I’m Christmas sensitive, please wean me gently.