Christmas Blues

This year was my first Christmas with my husband. We were newlyweds with new traditions. For the first time, we woke up in our house and exchanged presents with each other. It was a quiet Christmas morning, but a very special one for me. Change is hard for anyone, but as I told my husband, it's nice to start something new that you know will carry on for many more years to come.

We had several days in a row of family and friend time and enjoyed ourselves very much. Now as I walk through my house trying to organize the new gifts and start to get the Christmas ornaments together to start to pack up, I have a weird feeling. Christmas is such a whirlwind of good days, and leaves such a mess behind. This mess leaves me wanting to clean it up, including the tree and all of the decorations. I feel that now that it's over, it's just over.

I guess that's the way it is with every good day we spend, we wish we could do it all over again.