Christmas is over

There is so much excitement before Christmas. Stores put out their christmas things in October, sometimes in September. Come November, all you hear is Christmas music on the radio. I don't mind. It gets me in the mood. By December I'm mostly done christmas shopping. Throughout the year I look for bargains, and if I like something I'll pick it up. And then when a birthday or holiday comes around, I'll already have something for a present.
I usually decorate for Christmas shortly after Thanksgiving. Then comes the cookie baking, present wrapping and last minute shopping. Everybody is so busy around this time.  Everybody is preparing for this one day. The magical day. If you have children at home, you'll get up early to open presents. Or in our case, the grown children and their families come for christmas dinner. And afterwards we open presents. All the hussle and buzzle leads up to this one day. And then it is over.
Everybody goes home, back to work, back to ordinary. We light up the christmas tree a couple more times and then it just sits there. Dark. No more lights. It just feels like something is missing. The excitement is over. Time to put the decorations away.
I usually do that the first week of January. But I've been a little busy this past week, so I'll probably do it tomorrow.

Everything gets put away until next Christmas. And the excitement starts all over again.