10/22/2026
💚 The "Grinchy" HOLIDAY COUNTDOWN 🎃✨
The Grinch checked the calendar at Stillwaterville this week and muttered something like "EEW It's beginning to look too holidayish!" With Halloween only 11 days away the holiday countdown is getting real. 💚🎃
Halloween is up first on Saturday, October 31, and it’s only 11 days away. So close that the Grinch is going to have to deal with the candy bowls, costume chaos, and porch-light madness before he cares to. The window is shrinking fast to get the candy for your candy bowls. The Whos (or as we call them around here, the Stills) have the lights strung, filling the treat bowls, warming up a sing-along, and still deciding on who carves the roast beast.
Then the rest of the season piles on, mountain cave ready or not:
🦃 Thanksgiving: Thursday, November 26
🕎 Hanukkah: starts sundown Friday, December 4
🎅 Christmas: Friday, December 25
🥂 New Year’s Eve: Thursday, December 31
First we trick-or-treat (watch that the Grinch doesn’t swipe your candy stash!). Then we gather around the table. Then come the candles, the twinkle lights, the songs that refuse to leave your head, and a midnight toast loud enough to echo down the mountain. Very inconvenient. Extremely festive.
So which tradition is making your heart grow three sizes first: a Halloween costume, a Whoville-sized feast, or the playlist you swore you weren’t making? Confess below. 🎉💚
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