Hey look, a Holidailies writing prompt!
What do you miss the most from your childhood holidays, now that you are an adult?
I’m not sure about this whole “adult” thing. I have a mortgage and a job, so I guess I really can’t continue to avoid it.
I think having a job is the biggest problem here though. As a kid, it felt like the lead-up to Christmas lasted forever! This could have been for a couple of reasons.
1. In school, we spent months preparing for holiday concerts (first, Christmas concerts, then, when my Catholic school decided to be uber-Catholic, Advent concerts). Playing Christmas music for so many months definitely helped start the spirit early.
2. The arrival of the Sears Catalog! Does that thing even exist anymore? I used to love reading that. But only the toy section. The other parts were just boring.
3. Christmas crafts! So many crafty things to make!
And now, as a grown-up, Christmas sneaks up on me every year. It’s like I don’t have time to prepare and it’s suddenly all over and January is here. Perhaps this is due to the fact that I now have responsibilities other than going to school and homework. Plus, as a kid, a month seems like forever. Now, I regularly lose months. I’m still not sure where May went. I’m pretty sure that time sped up at some point this year.
So while traditions have changed and evolved (and Christmas morning involves much more alcohol, which is a good evolution), the thing I miss the most is the lead-up to the holiday. Maybe I’ll be better about it next year. Maybe I should follow the trend of the retailers and put up the tree in September.
Maybe not.