Advent

I'm excited for the Christmas season, even though most people have already been celebrating their Christmas season. Almost all of the Christmas parties are before Christmas. They're really Advent parties. There's even time after the kids return to school to have actual Christmas parties (if they don't already call them holiday parties). Not that a post like this is going to change any of this, but perhaps it will make an internal change in a reader or two, if only to encourage them that they aren't the only ones who feel that way.