Hey holidays, one at a time, m’kay?!

It all started for me when I was grocery shopping the last week of August and noticed something strange. No, it wasn’t the fact that I was *finally* pushing the cart solo with no child hanging off the side or asking when it would be her turn to push the cart (thank you school for starting again). Or the fact that I was shopping for my groceries at 7:57 a.m. which meant it was basically the lone checkout lady and me in the store.

Right in front of me was a Halloween candy display.

I immediately texted Lisa (moms can totally text each other random thoughts at super early times of the morning without it seeming weird as we have all been up since dawn) and asked her if perhaps I had hit my head and missed all of September or something.

I then came home and Facebooked about it.

After all, if it doesn’t go on Facebook, then did it really even happen?

We had barely finished the school supply shopping and then immediately found ourselves thrust into a holiday that was *literally* more than two months away. Our pool was still open for God’s sake. It was not time to start thinking about whether or not I would rather hand out Skittles or M&M’s. And let’s be honest here and say that the only thing that would happen if I purchased Halloween candy in August would be that I would eat it all by the first week of September.

I decided to channel my inner Elsa and “Let It Go” until this happened.

Thank you to my friend Robin for letting me use her photo as a visual aid.

Here is the deal, y’all. Unless your Halloween costume is going to be actually wearing Christmas pajamas, there is absolutely NO reason for these items to be displayed next to each other. You know what Christmas? Your turn is coming. Relax, why don’t you?

Apparently, I barely have enough time to recover from school starting before I am hounded to purchase my Halloween treats before I am confronted with how many more shopping days are left before December 25th. It just seems like too much, you know what I mean?