Quiet Welcome to the New Year
Jan. 4th, 2013 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kay_gmdI find that my Christmas spirit decided to kick in more in the post Christmas time. I suppose that's my Methodism showing too. The stores and radio stations can start playing Christmas music in June, but I own the period of waiting.
I wasn't feeling particularly Grinchy this year I was just going along like it was normal times. I quite enjoyed the Holidays, and all the lead up celebrations (even though I do loose some of my Methodist cred for buying into a potluck rather tan bringing something). But it's now that I find myself whistling carols, and just feeling Christmassy.
I think some of this is that what is winter to me is later than I think it should be. This is not me commenting on climate change so much as me commenting on a lack of observation on my part I think.
In my head Christmas is sort of mid winter (I know this doesn't actually mesh with calendars it's just my head). I tell myself that the shortest day of the year 12/21 should be the middle of winter, so by Christmas we should have had a month and a half of winter, and be looking forward to spring in another couple of months.
But the cold and wet that is winter in my head seems to be starting more in December, and I fully expect it to last into March. I was standing at the bus stop complaining about the cold I was genuinely cold, and not happy about it, but at the same time the switch in my head flipped saying yep it's okay to be Christmassy now.
In fairness a good chunck of it could be the chance to get my introvert on for a few days. I left Groblek and Kosh with the in-laws when I came back to work the Thursday and Friday after Christmas. At first I thought of social things I could do with my evenings, but I let them fall into inertia, and I think the time really alone was something that I found recharging. So it could just be that I'm more able to be Christmassy after the recharge.
In other news:
Groblek has been getting an amazing amount done with his off time this winter, every day I come home and go wow about something it's great!
Kosh is becoming explosively more communicative. It seems like every day he's able to say more, and when we specifically try to teach him something, if he's willing, he picks it up more quickly. (Will not judge mother in law for teaching him to climb in and out of his highchair... I suspect it was that she has trouble with/can't lift him, and wanted him to use it while she was watching him...). One example is that he loves to talk about trucks (and trains, and buses) but his tr and f sound amazingly similar. We've been encouraging him to practice the t sound. So now he'll periodically do a reasonable t...t...t. fruck. Toddler steps (bigger than baby steps, but also more likely to be distracted)
I think he's just settling back into a normal routine in time for us to mess with it again, but after Wednesday he should have a good long stretch of normal.
I'm looking forward to seeing mom, and my side of the family this weekend and through Wednesday, but I think I'll be happy getting into the normal routine too.
We had a really quiet New Years. Friends from church do an East Coast New Years so that you celebrate at 9 rather than midnight and everyone can get to bed earlier. We were looking forward to going, and we'd been encouraged to bring Kosh, but he positively refused to go down for a nap so we decided to stay home, and with the way Groblek and I were yawning by 7 it was undoubtedly for the best. New Years day involved puttering around the house, and a couple trips to the park.
It's a good life.
I wasn't feeling particularly Grinchy this year I was just going along like it was normal times. I quite enjoyed the Holidays, and all the lead up celebrations (even though I do loose some of my Methodist cred for buying into a potluck rather tan bringing something). But it's now that I find myself whistling carols, and just feeling Christmassy.
I think some of this is that what is winter to me is later than I think it should be. This is not me commenting on climate change so much as me commenting on a lack of observation on my part I think.
In my head Christmas is sort of mid winter (I know this doesn't actually mesh with calendars it's just my head). I tell myself that the shortest day of the year 12/21 should be the middle of winter, so by Christmas we should have had a month and a half of winter, and be looking forward to spring in another couple of months.
But the cold and wet that is winter in my head seems to be starting more in December, and I fully expect it to last into March. I was standing at the bus stop complaining about the cold I was genuinely cold, and not happy about it, but at the same time the switch in my head flipped saying yep it's okay to be Christmassy now.
In fairness a good chunck of it could be the chance to get my introvert on for a few days. I left Groblek and Kosh with the in-laws when I came back to work the Thursday and Friday after Christmas. At first I thought of social things I could do with my evenings, but I let them fall into inertia, and I think the time really alone was something that I found recharging. So it could just be that I'm more able to be Christmassy after the recharge.
In other news:
Groblek has been getting an amazing amount done with his off time this winter, every day I come home and go wow about something it's great!
Kosh is becoming explosively more communicative. It seems like every day he's able to say more, and when we specifically try to teach him something, if he's willing, he picks it up more quickly. (Will not judge mother in law for teaching him to climb in and out of his highchair... I suspect it was that she has trouble with/can't lift him, and wanted him to use it while she was watching him...). One example is that he loves to talk about trucks (and trains, and buses) but his tr and f sound amazingly similar. We've been encouraging him to practice the t sound. So now he'll periodically do a reasonable t...t...t. fruck. Toddler steps (bigger than baby steps, but also more likely to be distracted)
I think he's just settling back into a normal routine in time for us to mess with it again, but after Wednesday he should have a good long stretch of normal.
I'm looking forward to seeing mom, and my side of the family this weekend and through Wednesday, but I think I'll be happy getting into the normal routine too.
We had a really quiet New Years. Friends from church do an East Coast New Years so that you celebrate at 9 rather than midnight and everyone can get to bed earlier. We were looking forward to going, and we'd been encouraged to bring Kosh, but he positively refused to go down for a nap so we decided to stay home, and with the way Groblek and I were yawning by 7 it was undoubtedly for the best. New Years day involved puttering around the house, and a couple trips to the park.
It's a good life.