Thoughts on Being a Homebody This Christmas Season

Happy Blogmas 2023! I can’t believe it is December 1st already! I am happy to partake in Blogmas again this year!

For several months, I thought about what to write on this first day of Blogmas. I wanted to talk about something more personal and appropriate to start the first day of December. Sadly, things have just not been as holly jolly as I thought it would be.

In a post about Halloween, I talked about how I didn’t feel that joyful over Halloween this year. I also feel the same about the start of December. For some unknown reason, I’m also not excited about Christmas. All the normal things I want to do during Christmas time don’t interest me. Neither does going shopping for Christmas decor (Although I was excited about shopping, the feeling quickly faded) or seeing Christmas oriented movies. Even though Christmas does not bring me as much joy as it used to, I still find more joy and happiness in other things.

This is why I feel so off. As a Christian, Christmas is a really important holiday. Yet, this year I’m not that excited about it. I’m happy for the reason for the season (Jesus’ birthday) but the other stuff that goes with it isn’t making me so excited.

The thing is I’m seeing this more and more often with myself. I don’t want to go out and do things. I don’t want to go shopping at stores I used to. Going on a road trip where I normally do doesn’t make me excited or happy. Instead, I would rather stay home and enjoy alone time.

There are many reasons why I think this is, but the major two reasons I know effect me right now (and I feel like talking about online) are the new people who moved into the area I live and I just want to enjoy alone time at home.

I live in an area where a lot of new people moved to. I am used to the area being small and rural. Now there are many people in the area. I don’t mind the amount of new people, even though I feel out of my comfort zone with so many new people in the area and I really don’t like their driving! Yet, with so many new people in the area, I am pretty sure the Christmas activities will be really busy. This is why I feel more comfortable staying at home this year.

And on the topic of staying home, I really want to stay home! I don’t like to stay home all the time, but right now I feel comfortable staying home more. I have many books I want to read and many things to work on. The things I want to work on is cleaning and organizing, sewing, and other diy projects I postponed working on. Now, I want to work on them!

Even though this December may not be as exciting as much as other Decembers, I am excited about Christmas coming! I just feel more comfortable celebrating at home without going places and participating in my old favorite Christmas activities outside of my house.

That’s all for now! Thank you for reading!