Back to Reality

I was in a discount retail store the other day looking at all the leftover Holiday merchandise that was not chosen, and I thought to myself, "Isn't it funny how this stuff all had the glow of gift-potential before Christmas, and now it just looks sad?"

We had a great Christmas, welcomed in the New Year, and are now in the state of what I have come to think of as a "holiday hangover". The end of late nights, far too many sweets, routine thrown to the wind, fun to the point of exhaustion, and packing up Christmas decorations all have me feeling a little melancholy. Are there any home remedies for this? Does vacation really have to end?