How I Avoid The Winter Blues

Everyone  is decorating for Christmas and
I'm over here putting up all the fall decorations I caught on clearance today!
While I hold off on decorating for Christmas until after Thanksgiving, I do go ahead and get some of the artificial lights out right around the time that the time changes in the fall.
I struggle with the winter blues and it starts when the time changes, and then comes back again in January.


 Having extra, cheery lights up around the house helps to combat that issue. I didn't put two and two together about this until I was telling a friend that I always get a little sad after I take all the decorations down after the holidays...and she mentioned that it was probably the absence of the extra lights. I tested her theory out a couple winters ago, and she was totally right! (Extra vitamin D supplements help too.😉)
Guys, I'm blessed with some pretty smart friends!

 I bought these candles last year to have some extra, beautiful light to enjoy around the house. I made a point to pull them out this weekend before the time changes. Because tomorrow I will literally be staring out the window at 5:45 feeling dazed and bewildered, asking if it's midnight.
I know I'm not the only one who struggles with this, so I figured others might benefit as well.


The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:5

How do you avoid the winter blues?


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