Pensive Ponderings

   The Christmas Season, along with the New Year, can inspire great bursts of energy from me. I decorate and cook and bake myself into a tizzy. Really, I do. Then, when it all over and done, I am left with that post-partum-let-down. That all comes to a head when I take down the Christmas tree. Now that the kids are all grown and gone, I am left this lonely chore. Jay does not decorate, nor undecorate. It falls to me. I solemnly make the trip back down to the basement to bring up the "Christmas Decorations" box. I carefully remove all the ornaments, ribbon, lights. The lights are the hardest. I have this inner struggle to just put the rest of the decorations away and just leave the lights and the tree for one more weekend. Nah. I am doing this now, they must go into the box with everything else.

  So, now that's done, for another year. Time for me to re-claim my pre-Christmas energy and throw myself into the next task. Which is? I decided to treat myself to a post Christmas shopping trip. And I am going to go see a movie that Jay will not care to see. Then I have rehearsal tonight. Then, tomorrow, I return to work for the rest of the week. And all the pensive ponderings about what Christmas brings and what it leaves behind will leave me. At least, it will leave me until about this time next year. Love to all!