Xmas to New year - limbo time?

Difficult time if you rely on people/agencies/medical who necessarily and deservedly are having holidays.

Good to review last year and decide what you want out of 2023 unless you or family have difficult health times ahead.

I'm enjoying some of the "looking back on 2022" political satire .........what a year.....

A rest before full on decorator starting next Tuesday! I rarely wish time away but wouldn't mind fast forwarding just one week and the result.

It is a strange week, still a very useful pause between family gatherings and parties. It's nice to have a few fairly normal days to recharge my batteries.

It’s a preparation time for me. A clearing up and clearing out time. We don’t celebrate NYE so this is a gentle time without pressure, just making plans for January onwards.

I quite like this Christmas - new year limbo time. The pressure is off and there are plenty of left overs to eat.
I feel relaxed before new year pressures start building up.

Allsorts

Ailidth Are you happy you made the move? Well done for starting your healthy eating so soon.
I find the lull between Christmas and New Year is when I start turning out cupboards and getting rid of things. I’ve quite a bit now for the charity shops.

Very happy! Great, coastal location; a front door that closes and locks but I can open it and meet up with others if I want to, there's a common room; as a singleton with no children and a very small circle of close friends, I really value the fact that there's support around when I need it.
Unfortunately for my health, eating is my response to all change!!

I think this is on the wrong thread!

Although being a pedant I would have preferred you to call the days between Christmas and the New Year a liminal phase, rather then drag limbo into the discussion.

To historians of religion a liminal phase is the time between any major or minor transition, but it could be applied to the days between two ritual dates in the calendar.

Limbo on the other hand was a designation for the place where the unbaptised souls of children of baptised Christains went, if the children died unbaptised.

"Was" used advisedly, as the Catholic church no longer teaches that the souls of children who die unbaptised are kept out of Heaven.

Nothing 'limbo' about this week for me. I always have one or both children and DS's family wth me for the whole week, so it busy, bustly and full of walks, visits and doing things. Yesterday we visited a donkey sanctuary, where someone adopted a donkey on behalf of DGS as a Christmas present, in the evening we went to a pantomime. Today is a blessed quiet day as they are all off to a local historic city to walk round the university for DGD to consider whether she would like to apply for a place there.

There are many many people who don’t have these peaks and troughs if you are alone (many many are) or don’t have a massive surge of entertainment on these two dates there is no trough

I m happy just looking forward to Spring and knowing half the winter is behind me Lucky you marge if you have high celebrations to come down from and look forward to 😀

Maybe I should make more conscious effort to utilise these spare days but somehow an unstoppable Bank Holiday inertia creeps up with a vengeance.

It's an immoveable paralysis for sure.

I love this time too! It feels like a bit of an escape before life gets back to normal again.

I love this time. Nowhere to go, nothing important to do. Just rest and look forward to signs of spring .

Me too Allsorts. (Good name for what you do btw 😁)

I’ve got my shopping receipts to sort and my home file to have a good re-label.

Ailidth Are you happy you made the move? Well done for starting your healthy eating so soon.
I find the lull between Christmas and New Year is when I start turning out cupboards and getting rid of things. I’ve quite a bit now for the charity shops.

I enjoy the limbo week between Christmas and New Year. The stress of the run up to Christmas (fairly mild in my case) is past, and it feels as though there's no point starting anything major until the new year has dawned, so it feels like a legitimized week of dossing around. Bliss.

The only thing I have started is my diet, on the 28th. My stress response to moving across the country, from living alone to living amongst 50 others in a supported but it independent living flat has meant I've put on 50 lbs in a year. It's my aim to Lose 50lbs this year.

I rather enjoy it. A lovely space to mentally relive the joys of my family experience at the weekend whilst building up to the forthcoming excitement of what a new year may bring.

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