Tag Archives: Christmas

Wishing you a stress-free Christmas.

Tonight, on Christmas Eve Eve…I’m sitting here thinking several things. 1.  Where’s the snow? 2.  I’d kill for some General Tso’s chicken. 3.  Why I am I so relaxed and not freaking out with stress? Zoloft 1 & 2 I can’t do anything about tonight, but 3 I can figure out.  I finally stopped worrying […]

I refuse to get stressed out this holiday season.

You know what?  I am so over being stressed out from November to January.  The minute (and usually before) the Halloween decorations come down, retailers begin bombarding us with holiday advertising.  Before I’ve even bought a turkey for Thanksgiving, stores have Christmas decorations up. The pressure is on…holiday flyers arriving weekly in the mail.  TV […]

So. Much. Stuff.

Do you guys ever struggle with how much to give your children on Christmas?  You know…how much “stuff” is enough?  My girls are pretty good about picking just one main gift that they want the most, and then I add some fun filler items to round it out.  But this year we seem to have […]

56 Days ‘Til Christmas! Ho-Ho-Oh-Who-Am-I-Kidding?

Ugh…I can’t even begin to deal with the Christmas onslaught yet.  Seriously?  How can it even be that time of year already?  I love Christmas.  I love the spirit of the holiday, families being together, decorating the house, making and eating decorating all of the cookies, sitting in the dark watching the snow fall by […]