now celebrating: gap week

[marcicat]

We have reached that most wonderful time of the year — the time when we can finally stop celebrating!

When I was little (I remember thinking about this in the first house I lived in, so it would have been age 8 or under), I visualized the year as a calendar line.

Sort of like this:

January
February
March
…assorted other months…
November
December

It went down, in a line, right? And once you got to Christmas, which was obviously the end of the year, you were at the bottom. I “figured out” that the reason why we had these extra days after Christmas, but before New Years, was to get back to the top of the calendar. A gap week, like a behind the scenes reset button on the calendar of the year. (“Pardon the mess, it’ll just take us a few days to get the months back in order for you.”)

This made perfect sense to me.

(It kind of still does.)

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Comments

[purplestripe66]

YES! OMG I totally know what you mean. The time between Christmas and New Years is like the back room, when you can clean up, prepare and catch up.