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.

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[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.