Year of Pleasures 28

The sweet aftermath of a holiday. I love celebrating. The holidays with young children have taken on even more flavor than they did when I was a college student organizing grand parties. With children, the lead up to the holidays are days filled with anticipation, and a barely repressed quivering of joy. Everyday, they ask how many more days. They feverishly plan. And then the day arrives, and all the joy comes to a breaking point. If you're lucky you avoid celebration meltdown...
or not...

But really the best part for me is the day after...the sweet joy of just collapsing basking in the glow that remains.