It hardly feels like christmas.
On the one hand I know it is vacation because my kids are always home and I’m done with my classes for the semester. On the other hand, it doesn’t snow here so a few scattered showers are all we have to point to the holiday. The kids are not even in full santa mode. They know the holiday is nigh, but the christmas power has fallen back a bit. Part of that is a failure on my part to establish solid holiday rituals. We don’t do the christmas eve church bit. We don’t carol or play the christmas music in our home.
All of this is compounded by my own stress and fatigue and inability to string together a whole bunch of words. Perhaps tomorrow I will articulate this better… and earlier.