How the mighty have fallen...

Every year, I get the holiday boxes out a little closer to the actual date of the holiday. We celebrate holidays other people barely notice. I have a whole box just for St. Patrick's Day. What can I say? I was very energetic, once upon a time.

I used to be so big on Halloween, it was hard to wait until it was technically October to get all the decorations and storybooks and doodads out. This year I was so tuckered out that it was only today, the day before Halloween itself, that I hauled it all out -- and then only because my son needed the stuff to carve the pumpkin with. So we'll have a day, maybe two, of having fake spiders and that huge foam-rubber Halloween hopscotch game all over the place, and then it'll be, "Okay, honey, holiday's over. Time to pack it in."