It's not like Christmas at all.

I am not sure what it is. Something this year is different. It seems like the Christmas season has come and gone. The shopping season has come to a close and I, I just know what it is but something is just not right. I look at the snow and I look at the tree and it looks like Christmas. I look at the stocking and the gift wrapped and stacked, some embellished with bows and they look like Christmas too. Even still, I just feel like something is missing and I think its not something I can see or touch that is missing, because I think I would have noticed. I think it just the spirit that has changed for me and I can't explain how it happened. This is year, this short, short season is like none before it. I wish it hadn't changed. I miss it they way it was, and at this point I don't know if it will ever come back.

                                                            [My Xmas Tree]

Like the song: They're singing Deck the Halls [ on the radio like they do every year] but it's not like Christmas at all.