I confess, dear reader, that the Joys of Christmas are taking some time to settle upon me this year. Part of that is that for people in my line of work – like many others, I assume – this is one of the busiest weeks of the year. You really do pay for that Christmas shutdown by essentially cramming three weeks’ worth of work into one.
I guess it’s also partly because my wife and I are childless. Before you all start feeling immeasurably sad and sympathetic on our behalf, this is not actually a source of ongoing pain and misery, or anything like that. We are what Americans who love labelling things call DINKS – double income no kids – and that’s a pretty good life. But Christmas I always think is a time for children more than it’s a time for adults. If you have kids in your house, then you can probably feel the anticipation and the excitement more than you can in a house like mine.
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