Surviving the Holidays
How to Beat Holiday Hustle Burnout
Hey Readers!
I don’t know about you, but I’m not yet ready for the holidays. Sure, I’ve got my tree up. Yes, I ordered (most) all the presents. But I haven’t wrapped. Haven’t planned Christmas dinner. And the gingerbread “beach house” I’m going to make with my kids is still sitting in the box.
In years past, I’ve been a victim to “Holiday Hustle Burnout.” Years ago, when my daughter was little, I had the grand idea we were going to bake cookies for everyone we knew. And not just one type of cookie. Like five types of cookies. Dozens of them.
It was all fun at first, until about two hours later when the kitchen was splashed with sugar and flour, and I found my daughter, four, fast asleep next to multiple cookie sheets of rounded dough at the kitchen table. Ready to collapse myself, I ran my buttered hands through my tangled hair as I wondered, why didn’t we just bake one dozen and watch Christmas movies instead?
