So this is Christmas....

...and what have you done?
Another year over,
A new one just begun.

Man that John Lennon was kinda depressing, eh?

Why is it, though, that there is a depressing aspect to the holiday season? Is it that each year you try to outdo yourself? Creating an unrealistic self-imposed expectation for yourself that nobody could possibly live up to, but you feel that you must, or everyone will have a miserable holiday because of you? Hmmm or is that just me?

Is it that everywhere you go, everyone around you seems to be frenzied and cuts you off in the parking lot and flips you off (if you are reading this, you know who you are).

Hmmm....or maybe, just maybe, it is that the holidays only come once per year and there is that brief moment in time when you finally feel everything is "done" and you sit back and enjoy all of your hard work and decorations and feel what the holidays are truly about. I guess I wouldn't trade that for anything.

Happy holidays!