Five Easy Steps to Slowing Down the Time Between Halloween & Christmas
Posted: Saturday, October 24, 2009
by Debi Strong
When I was a child, the time between Halloween and Christmas seemed interminable. Honestly, I remember how it felt like there was a year in between October and December. Now, as a parent, it seems that I barely get a chance to blink and put my daughter's Halloween costume away before suddenly the time-space continuum collapses and, poof, it's Christmas!
What's a mother to do? How does one reverse the process and unravel the time that seems to have contracted upon itself? Follow these five steps and you'll feel much better:
1. Forget trying to change the situation and accept the inevitable: it's a lost cause and you're simply wasting time and energy. The retailers run the country, if not the world, and we are but putty in their hands. So...
2. Smooth the transition through the holiday season by setting up your holiday tree in October and decorating it with little orange lights, tiny skeletons and ghosts, and miniature carved pumpkins. As November waxes and wanes, you can change out the lights and transition the ornaments through small cornucopias and turkeys to your traditional Christmas ornaments. (This strategy also works well with the seasonal, decorative grapevine wreath on your front door.)
3. Instead of buying packages of the usual Halloween candy, buy candy canes, red and green M & Ms, etc. That way there won't be any "leftover" candy, and you'll be ahead of the game when December rolls around in a mere four weeks' time! Friends and neighbors will be amazed at your efficiency. If they imitate your efforts, all the better -- we'll get rid of Halloween candy altogether and increase the variety of Christmas goodies!
4. Limit your kids' costume choices to angels, reindeer, nutcrackers, snowmenyou get the idea. On November 1 st , simply drape the costumes over the autumn-leaf-stuffed, orange faux-pumpkin trash bags in your driveway and arrange them on your lawn.
5. Lastly, although each of the aforementioned holidays only occurs once each year, I believe that if you keep the spirit of Christmas alive in your heart all year long, you will be ahead of the game. So keep thinking, "Peace on Earth, good will toward everyone," and everything else will take care of itself.
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Top-level comments on this article: (5 total)How is your attitude and mood?Have both lightened? i HAVE PRAYED FOR YOU:paul schroederHi Paul,Thanks for your message and your concern. My attitude and mood vary from day to day, but at least I am trying to write something lighthearted. Did you think this was humorous at all???Thank you for your prayers. I appreciate every prayer that is sent my way.Debilike you,it was cute!
Debi,reading this article actually triggered my also writing one ,called:"Superstitions of Christmas",so I thank you:Paul Schroeder
Debi, what a delightful article!! Thanks for the smiles, and I really like the way you ended it.
Good writing and observations Debi. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with your readers. Marijo (Mary Jo)
Good advice, Debi, especially your last paragraph. Welcome to SearchWarp.
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