Has the Season Got You Deflated?…

What makes Christmas so much more stressful than Thanksgiving, or Easter, or 4th of July?

Is it the thrust of advertising on the television guilting us into spending more money than we have because the more we spend, the more we’ll have and the happier we’ll be.  Right?

Wrong…evidently!

Because for some reason Christmas is still a very swings and roundabouts holiday.

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Close your eyes for a minute, and conjure up a Christmas scene, a table groaning under delicious food, cakes and cookies baking, the house filled with roasting meats, a warm hearth, hot drinks, snowy scenes where somehow the people always look warm, the posters, the cards, the films,  all contribute to that Expectation we have built up in our heads, of warmth, cheer and abounding Bonhomie.

With changing family dynamics I have been able to relax a little more in the lead up to that Special Day.  We’ve stockinged at our children’s places, we’ve gone to see a movie in the early afternoon, we’ve drawn names for gifts with large family gatherings, we’ve focused on gatherings and food, conversation and carols, prayer and midnight mass, we’ve even Decked the Halls in England to change things up but still the cloud threatens to visit even the jolliest of folk at least once during December.

I have no solution to banning the blues, mine hit most fiercely after the holidays but I am one to face my dragons head on so perhaps the first step is acknowledging the stress and the next step is removing it a little bit at a time…

Lots of deep breaths the ujjayi way.

Who knows, by the time I’m in my wheelchair I may be so blasé about Noel I’ll be smiling and singing the jingle bells away.

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