The holiday season is officially over. We've all managed to consume two ginormous feasts, shop for gifts like money grows on trees, decorate the house, build a model of Mt. Everest out of wrapping paper hastily ripped of gifts and tossed aside, clean up multiple messes, relax and spend time with strange relatives, and stay up to ridiculous hours of the night to celebrate the first hours of the new year.
Thankfully, the un-decorating process is over at our house. It's an endeavor that everyone dreads. The very mention of it produces groans and several irritated comments about the illusive house cleaning/decoration storing fairies. They never show up when you need them. We managed to complete the process quite nicely (without their help) and the living room seems empty after two months of having fall and Christmas decorations everywhere. Then of course, there is the kitchen, where all of the boxes are piled up waiting to be carried upstairs.
We can't be expected to do all of the work! ;)
And so, we get back to normal. There's the daily cleaning regiment, laundry and ironing, lessons to plan, meals to cook (the leftovers have finally disappeared!), books with deadlines to be read, spring cleaning or new year cleaning to do, the beginning of the festival season to plan for, a garden to map out, herbs to study and seed, lists to be made for what we will be canning this summer, planning new projects for the new year and making lists of supplies, sewing projects to draft, research to labor through...
Oh yes, we are back to normal!
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