Crazy Already?

Halloween is a scant few days away. The pumpkins are on the front step waiting to be carved. The candy hidden from desirous eyes and grabbing hands. T.D.'s costume has been tried on and test driven. She is ready to become Lord Vader. In our house the dog is the princess. Princess Leia to be exact.

We are a month from Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and two months from Christmas. Yet somehow emails and phone calls have already begun popping up into my inbox and onto my voicemail regarding holiday menus and logistics. IT'S TOO EARLY! Isn't it? Am I being too nonchalant? I love the holidays don't get me wrong but the frenzy for Turkey day is bearing down and I'm already feeling the stress. Puff pastry? I'm in charge of puff pastry?! I HATE making puff pastry. I suck at it and it stresses me out causing me to either want to smoke, want to drink, or smoke and drink and ash into the cream puff holes rather than fill them with delicious cream. It is not a gift I possess.

I'm all for making pumpkin or leaf shaped sugar cookies right now (except there is that pesky baking embargo I've been put on). That's all well and good to me but I don't need to be getting excited about a giant floating Kermit yet. Though EEEE I do love me a good NBC sponsored parade. All this talk of Thanksgiving has inevitably led to Christmas. H has forbidden me to talk of gift buying with him in the room because as he shouts, "It's only OCTOBER!!!" Eek. Though he has mentioned that if anyone does ask this is what he would like... Nicely done H. Gifts have been purchased already. Stocking stuffers discussed. It is as if once the ball of holiday mania has started down its slippery slope there is no going back.

I'm determined to enjoy the fall festival this weekend and think only of pumpkins, leaves, ghosts and goblins. Not turkeys, which stuffing I prefer, puff pastry and sugar plum fairies. I will carve my pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns and eat Oktoberfest food all through this coming week never once pondering dressings or real vs. fake trees.

This vow in itself makes it almost ineffectual and I think how can it be that I've become crazy already? Don't even ask about New Year's.





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