How much difference a day makes!

For approximately a month, our radios and stores have been full of Christmas music, our towns and homes lite with Christmas lights. Even my Jewish friends take Christmas day off of work. It is a day that some folks spend all year planning for. They plan parties, and gifts, and gift shopping, etc. So, why is it that today, the day after Christmas, is just another day? This year it happens to be just another Wednesday. Most people go back to work, etc. Sure there are some that take this entire week between Christmas and New Years off. Just enough people do that to make the rest of us inconvenienced by what we can't seem to get done. For many of us, we will get home from work tonight and not even turn on the Christmas tree lights that was the centerpiece of yesterdays activities. The music has stopped, and other than the workers taking down the decorations, all is back to normal. A week from now, a completely different kind of celebration, one which lends itself more to the adult side of the crowd, where as Christmas, at least in the American consumer version, lends itself to kids. Happy New Year to All!