November 1=Christmas?

I feel like Christmas advertisements start earlier and earlier every year. Last week I noticed sections in stores with holiday decorations, Toys 'R' Us commercials selling their popular Christmas items, even Sears has a commercial telling you how to be "Sant-abulous" this holiday. Back when we were younger, I feel like this didn't start until the week of Thanksgiving--at the very earliest.

Now, apparently, society has decided to take the glory away from Thanksgiving and skip right to Christmas. My roommates and I decided to wait to put up decorations in our apartment after Thanksgiving break--a tradition we all thought was common. Our House Mom in our sorority has already decorated our chapter house and before meeting tonight we took a chapter Christmas card picture. I'm all about the celebration, and Christmas decorations do make me happy and excited to see my family, but it just seems too soon. Granted it's kind of hard to advertise items for Thanksgiving, other than turkey sales at HyVee, but I still feel like I'm losing the entire month of November and most of December the way stores are selling Christmas.

Thinking about Christmas now makes me feel two different things: 1) I'm excited to go home and have a month off of school but 2) It makes me stressed to think that final exams and projects are coming up.

So in light of stressing out about finals, I want to remind myself and all of you that even though it may feel like Christmas is right around the corner, there is still over a month and a half until that happens. No need to stress out too much yet :)

Now since Christmas is on my mind, here is my favorite holiday song. Enjoy!