Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you’d like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2023 here. If you’re interested in reading other people’s responses to this week’s topic, you can do so here.
If You Could Create a Holiday, What Would It Be?
Ever since I can remember, I have been a fan of the autumn/winter months (I can’t stand summer). I love Halloween, and growing up, I was obsessed with Christmas (I still am), so if I were to invent a holiday, I think it would probably be a mashup of those two holidays, and I would call it Christmaween.
Christmaween would start at precisely midnight on Halloween (October 31st) and last for the whole month of November, incorporating elements of both Halloween and Christmas, and it would act as a transitional period between the two.
We could celebrate the holiday by keeping our Halloween decorations up and adding some Christmas decorations. Better still, we could make some new decorations specifically for the holiday, merging the spooky with the festive. For example, we could have wreaths made of orange, brown, black and purple leaves (sprayed obviously), and we could have ‘Happy Christmaween’ garlands to string across our mantlepieces. We could light autumnally scented candles and even make candy canes of orange and black instead of the traditional red and white and flavour them with chocolate, cinnamon, or even gingerbread.
Our Christmas trees could serve double duty: for November, they could be decorated in Halloween colours. We could use purple, orange and black tinsel to weave around our trees’ branches and string them with fairy lights in purple, green, and orange while hanging little pumpkin, ghost and skeleton ornaments from their branch tips.
During the holiday, people could take their carved pumpkins with spooky Christmas designs and go door to door singing Christmaween carols in exchange for autumnal treats like pumpkin pie, gingerbread, and cinnamon or pumpkin spiced flavoured sweets.
Nights could be spent warming up by a fire while we sip steaming mugs of gingerbread-flavoured hot chocolate as we tell each other scary stories.
Then, as we move towards the end of November, we could swap out some of the more Halloween-focused decorations with purely Christmas-oriented ones so that when December arrives, everywhere will be fully ready for Christmas.
Well, that was fun! Those are my ideas for a new holiday, and I’m very much looking forward to reading about yours. I bet you all have some fascinating ideas.
As ever, thank you for stopping by to read my words. I appreciate it.
Until next time,
George
© 2023 GLT
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GEORGE L THOMAS 
This sounds super interesting! I’m not a big fan of Christmas due to some bad experiences I’ve had at that time of year, but I could do Christmasween.
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That actually sounds lovely. We need more Christmasween carols.
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Yes, Michael! One hundred per cent! 🎃🎄
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I think the holiday traditions are incompatible, but hot gingerbread spices could be the next pumpkin spice lattes. Melt sorghum in a bit of boiling water, mix in ginger and cinnamon, cool down with milk…yum!
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They might appear to be incompatible, Priscilla, but not if you mash and hammer the traditions into a mess of Christmaween madness. I’ve never heard of sorghum before but having just looked it up, it sounds like I might like it.
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Most people do! It’s the base of gingerbread here. I suppose sugar-cane molasses works, but it seems to have a bitter taste to me, whereas sorghum molasses is just rich. Though maybe that’s the difference between local and imported?
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I think I’ll have to try it 🙂
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Good idea, do you toss Thanksgiving into the mix?
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Yes, of, course, if you’re of the American persuasion! It makes sense to me! 🦃🎃🎄
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