Official beginning of the holiday season

I just finished cleaning the house. My parents are flying into Ottawa tonight, and in anticipation of their visit I cleaned the kitchen and my bathroom. I'm thinking about straightening up my room, but it's still pretty clean. Maybe I'll do something with these extra keyboards and mice that I'm not using.

Seems the only time I ever really clean up is when my mother is coming to where I live. As a result, I use her Christmas visit cleanup as my official gauge of when the holidays start. The start of the holidays is usually the day I leave to go to my grandma's, so really the cleanup is mostly unnecessary.

And yet I do it every year.

This will likely be my last post until after Christmas.