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Saturday, November 03, 2007

Is it Christmas Already?

Today when I was at the grocery store, I noticed that they were in the process of removing all the Halloween candy and stocking the shelves with Christmas cookies. In fact festive decorations appeared to be springing up out of nowhere; I reached for an orange and met the gaze of a wire reindeer with lights on it.

On Halloween, after I found out my older son (OS) had been sulking for an hour because he thought I was going to take his younger brother (YS) trick-or-treating while he was in preschool, he decided that he wanted it to be Christmas. No, I'm not kidding. This is probably because I had somehow decided earlier that morning that it would be a wise idea to mention that Christmas comes after Halloween. Don't even ask how I got started on that conversation. When I picked OS up from preschool, he announced much to the amusement of his teacher, that he was "all done with Halloween" and wanted it to be Christmas.

After convincing tricking OS into believing that Christmas was still a while away, we headed home for lunch. A couple of hours later we headed out to the mall to trick or treat. Guess who was there? No, not the Great Pumpkin, but Santa Claus's chair! They were setting up the "North Pole" in the middle of the mall for pictures with Santa. OS was quick to point out that he was right about Christmas. He gave me that look of complete annoyance that only children can give to their parents and pointed to the ceiling where the Christmas decorations were hanging.

Don't these stores realize they are taking away all my credibility by insisting on setting up for Christmas so early?! I'm all for stores having the best holiday season possible, but I have a 4 year old who's already beginning to think that I'm an idiot.

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Halloween now marks the start of the Christmas season

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 4:00 PM   6 comments
6 Comments:
  • At 11/03/2007 5:16 PM, Blogger Lisa said…

    Doesn't the fact that they start pushing the Christmas crap the day after Halloween drive you crazy? It does me! :-)

     
  • At 11/03/2007 11:44 PM, Blogger super des said…

    The day after Halloween before the bookstore was even open, the Halloween display went down and the xmas display went up. That was sad. (Not to mention the "holiday" stand that was already up.)

     
  • At 11/04/2007 9:58 AM, Blogger Chantelle said…

    What the heck happened to Thanksgiving?

     
  • At 11/04/2007 2:02 PM, Blogger Jodi said…

    I heard x-mas music on the radio they day of Halloween. Really.

     
  • At 11/04/2007 10:19 PM, Anonymous Selfmademom said…

    Dontcha know? The end of Halloween means it's time to celebrate Xmas! Oy, I say.

     
  • At 11/06/2007 9:23 AM, Blogger Suzanne said…

    Grrr... I hate mass consumerism as a way to prop up the economy.

     
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