Anyone else feel sad now that the holidays are over??

I have not enjoyed our Christmas break at all. My last day of work was the 21st and I go back on the 7th. My husband took off the same time. My relationship with my mother has been strained for a while and I haven’t asked her to come for Christmas for a few years. I thought I would try to be nice and asked her if she would like to come this year. She came on the 22nd and leaves on Thursday. I feel like we really only have three days. It will be a few years before I ask her again. I usually enjoy the lazy days hanging around with my family. Not so much this year.

Not really. Part of the joy of the holidays is the fact that it is just a short time. It forces you to make the best of that time because it ends as quickly as it started. By new year, I'm happy to put stuff away and go back to our normal routines. Best of all, the pig tour ends. Lol

ETA: I have a neighbor who keeps their indoor Xmas decor up all year. Seriously, I see the Xmas tree in the front window and the snowflake decorations in the windows. How does that not get  old? 

Our normal starts tomorrow. Hubby was on vacation since the 21st, he goes back tomorrow and it’s out of town! He will be back Friday.

We were surprisingly busy after Christmas—cannot believe it was already a week ago, we had our last celebration today.

I’m looking forward to my return to “normal” here though—I enjoy my daily schedule!

I’m starting it tomorrow by cleaning out the cedar closet, the master closet, the master bathroom closet and the upstairs hall closet—my goal for the week is to get all those cleaned out and organized. I’ve already pulled everything out of 2 of the closets (hall & cedar).

I have not taken our trees down, probably won’t for another week. I’m not in a hurry and I love my trees so I really like looking at them. I took down all of one clients decorations today—didn’t take long and it was out in the next county where we were going to celebrate today so I’m glad to have all that neat and tidy now.

We bought a new silver tree for next year—I so want to put it up and look at it, lol!!!

Next week I’m clearing out and reorganizing hubby’s office. We got new furniture for it over the holiday, so I’m going to get it all meshed in.

I’ll probably take the tree down in our master bedroom next week too, since I put the big tree box in the office and it will get stored in the newly cleared out cedar closet.

We have a 12’ live tree in our living room, 2 twin floor to ceiling trees in the dining room, a 4’ tree in the kitchen. I’m going to wrap the twin trees and store them in The cedar closet—but they are all glass snowflakes so the can stay up for a while yet 😉 we’re watching the live one (for drying out) and once it starts to loose it’s needles is what prompts me to start taking the ornaments off! We cut it up and out it in our fireplace outside.

I love the holidays, and I’m never in a hurry to rush them along.
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Not this year. Ds graduates in May and I have to plan and look forward to that.

Totally! I too have been off since the 21st. It's been SOOO nice. I have never taken this much time off during the holidays in all the 35 yrs I've worked for this Co. It's going to be hard going back tomorrow. I enjoyed my time off so much. I took down all the cmas decorations and tree today. Jan is yuck up here. So, yea. blech

The holidays were hard on my emotions. Now that they’re over I’m feeling a lot better. But I’m not looking forward to back to school.

Only that I’m having to go back to work after having been sick since December 19, 2 days after I got off work. I’m still coughing and snotty, although I feel better, so I feel as if my vacation from teaching has been wasted because I’ve felt too crappy to do most of the fun things I was planning. At this point, I’m hoping that I can shake the rest of this bug before I have to stand in front of a class next Monday.

No. I am actually relieved it’s over. We have like 4 Christmas celebrations, my dad’s birthday, my daughters birthday and New Years between Dec 21-Dec 31. It’s a lot. And it’s hectic and there’s pressure and I do not enjoy it. I am so happy that the kids have this entire week off from school so that I can rest, deal with house stuff, and relax. I wish we had another 2 weeks off from school.

I'm usually over it by the 25th at noon. For me, a good week of holiday cheer is plenty. It is just so commercialized at times and hearing Christmas music 2 minutes after Halloween is just too soon (not to mention the holiday commercials). I'd actually love it if Christmas started right after Thanksgiving, but that isn't going to happen.

I just went through the motions. I miss my Mom, Dad and brother so much. The holidays just remind me that they are gone. I took the decorations down on the 27th to try and get things back to normal.

I’m ready to get back into the normal hustle and flow of our routine. While it was nice having my kid home for the week, it will be just as nice having her back in school. The kid HATES transitions and when she’s off school (even on weekends) she seems to think she can live in her pjs and do whatever she wants. She’s too young to leave home alone, so if I have errands I need to run or stuff I need to do, it’s like pulling teeth to get the kid to get dressed and moving and it takes endless reminding and prodding. And then again at night it’s the same thing in reverse because she hates going to bed.   I kind of like it when everyone is off doing what they do so I can get all my stuff done. I work from home so my entire life is upended when they are home and almost nothing gets done. I’m staring down a huge backlog that will take me a week and a half to plow through.

I am not sad to take down decorations or get back to normal meals, etc...but, I am 100 percent not ready to get back to the busyness of life. I am so over having to run from sun up to sun down every day. Add in January/Feb blues, and I am basically gritting my teeth from now until summer break.

Oh, well. Ready or not, here it comes!
Erin

I think I enjoyed the holidays more this year because I shopped early, decorated early and then felt like I had more time to enjoy them. That was a first for me.

I've been off work for two weeks as well, and go back tomorrow. I'm kind of excited to go back and kinda a bit sad cause dh and I had time to do a lot of fun things while I was off.

And I mentioned earlier this evening that I was gonna try this new thing called going to bed early, yet here I am still up, so that isn't working too well.

we had such a quiet holiday time.. nothing much going on. and as dh is retired, and all my clients are out of town.. it has been very quiet. so we are extending the fun by going on vacation for a week on sunday. Yeah.. I'm going skiing. my fav. thing.