Isn't it too early to be thinking about Christmas?

[janradder]

This morning I dreamt that it was Christmas and we'd completely forgotten about it. Or I should say, haddayr and I forgot about it because the kids hadn't. We hadn't gotten a tree, we hadn't bought a single present, I hadn't made anything for dinner, but there it was, Christmas morning. Haddayr was at work and I was downstairs while the boys were waking up and I was quickly shoving as much stuff as I could find around the house into the boys stockings -- stale hard candies, baking chocolate, old cherry tomatoes that had seen better days. As I shoved the last of the items in, I could hear the boys' excited footsteps coming down the stairs, and I wondered how I was going to explain the absence of a tree and the lack of gifts.

Comments

[sacwentie.livejournal.com]

INteresting...I think this is your anxiety dream, because Christmas is your big performance of the year. My anxiety dreams involve not being able to find concert black, and having inordinate amounts of trouble trying to get it on.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

I've been dreaming a lot lately about forgetting stuff like school and holidays.

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

For about two decades I would have horrible dreams like this--I called these my Christmas stress dreams. And yes, they would run on during times of great emotional stress. Christmas was for a while a *huge* deal to me, and any suggestion of not being able to decorate or do thing sproperly really wigged me out.

So my sympathies on this dream.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I had a dream last week where I completely forgot to send the kids to school until Haddayr came downstairs at noon and asked me why they were still at home.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

HA, didn't you have that dream last year?

I started buying for that stupid day last month. Get with it!

[janradder.livejournal.com]

I know, I know -- if I don't get a move on, that dream's gonna become reality.