I love the holidays. For me everything surrounding the holidays is wonderful. I love the decorating, the lights, the food and the events. I especially love getting together with family and having time to enjoy some time to visit with those people who I love and don't get to see very often.
Yet, once the holidays are over I am over them. The tree comes down, the decorations get put away. I clean up the house and get rid of things I am not using. I was telling a friend that as of right now I am tired of the celebrating, all the hurry, hurry to get things done and all the rich food. I am ready to burrow in and make it through winter as best I can.
One thing that picks me up is that my seed catalogs start arriving right after Christmas. So while I am making it though winter I can also look at the photos of beautiful gardens and plan mine for the summer. Last year we grew cucumbers for the first time and they were wonderful. This year I plan to expand the garden beds so I can plant more!
Don't you just love new years also? It is a great time to make resolutions and start fresh. My husband and I have been on a clean out spree recently. Yes, the Pack Rat (that's my husband) is on board with simplifying our lives and getting rid of the things we don't use. I will try to get rid of as much as I can until he starts to get stressed because his stuff is leaving the house. (Shh, don't tell him that).
How do you embrace the new year? Resolutions? Get fit? I will spend my new year hopefully cleaning out the house and preparing for a garage sale to get rid of stuff we are not using.
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