Lars Walker writes compellingly about how to get Christmas back, not by making it longer, but by making it deeper. The whole thing's reprinted below (which I realize breaks about 47 rules of blog-etiquette, but I really liked this post!):

To retailers who started putting out Christmas merchandise in October, and radio station programming directors who are already playing "seasonal" music, and homeowners who've put out their holiday lights, even though it isn't Thanksgiving yet.

I understand. I'm a Boomer too. I know that Christmas was the most wonderful, magical time of the year when you were a kid. It was for me, too. I, too, would love to recapture that feeling.

However. You're not a kid anymore. You're an adult, too beaten up by life to be taken in by glockenspiel music and colored lights. Especially when you strung those colored lights yourself.

You will never get the magic of Christmas back by making the holiday longer. You'll only get it back by making the holiday deeper.

The people who invented Christmas actually believed that God became man. That means that all our highest aspirations, dreams and hopes are not fantasy, but fact, and that Ultimate Truth came down to hang out with us a while. And then died for us. And then defeated death.

When you get that, you'll get Christmas back.

Just thought you'd like to know.