I think this is my favorite week of the year. We don’t have a name for it, though. What could we call the week between Christmas and New Years?
For many years, I was a bit worried, related to business. Each year, business would come to a complete halt. Two weeks before Christmas, up to New Years, business would just cease and I would get worried. And each year, my mother would say, “You say that every year! Don’t you remember, it’s like that each year?” And she was right. Business picked up right after the new year.
Now I don’t care. I learned to just take things as they come, or don’t come. And now I enjoy the lull in everything. I honestly keep forgetting what day of the week it is!
It’s funny, because right before Christmas, it’s very hectic with all the preparations and then it just stops on December 26.
I’m enjoying see all the hecticness at the airports this week on tv, and knowing I’m not part of that mess. I last traveled at Thanksgiving time, but it was during the off-days, so it wasn’t hectic. While it’s a big tourist time in Miami, I don’t live in a tourist area, so it doesn’t affect me.
I have a friend who has always loved New Year’s Eve and the new year. I guess it was all a fresh start for him, and now I appreciate that. I think these days my favorite Holiday is Thanksgiving. For many years it was Christmas, as I am sure most kids enjoy the most, then it was Halloween. Now it is Thanksgiving.
My mother always loved July 4th. One year for her birthday, I bought her all sorts of July 4th things – it seems weird, but it was great. I got decorations and big serving platter, lots of U.S. Flags and things like that. She really loved it.
While I love this time of year, I also enjoy my time in New York in the summer. I already made my plane reservations. I have six months to go and I have already started the countdown. I would like to go somewhere in Europe in the Spring, too. Still thinking what to do about that.
So for now I’m going to enjoy New Years Eve and Day and the new year. Hope you do, too.
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