Around Christmas time, things in my life tend to get a little hectic. Whether it is the combination of Christmas, New Years, and TONS of birthdays (including my own!!!), or simply the season is a mystery. All I know is that the days between December 20 and January15 all mush into one long, chaotic, sugary, mess. To tell you the truth, the chaos in itself doesn't bother me nearly as much as the sudden inability to finish any and every task. It seems that for an entire month out of the year everything is pushed out of schedule as our lives are renovated and reorganized. In the meantime, it feels as if we are getting nothing done. Truly, it is winter madness.
Yet dare I complain about this annual craze? Perhaps it is this break from the regular schedule that allows us to sanely oblige to the ordinary for the next eleven months. While I'm not sure that
"break" or "vacation" properly describes this pause from the normal routine, it does offer us a new view of regular schedules, making them more appealing than they would otherwise be. Maybe this is why we are annually subjected to winter madness.