Thanks for the post.
I was feeling a bit blue now that the holiday is past and the trees are alongside the road. My lights are still up and decorations still out.
So happy to learn the season is not over! I love it so!
The holiday is far from past, as my FRiend Salvation notes!
Our tree goes up on Christmas Eve (no sooner), the lights are extinguished for the last time on Twelfthnight (Epiphany Eve), and the tree itself comes down on Epiphany.
The season our (American) secular society celebrates as "Christmas" (with all their parties and shopping) fall in our penitential season of Advent. Okay, we do attend their parties and do what shopping we've not already done by then... but we still know it's Advent and not Christmas.