Remember to Have Fun This Holiday Season

No One Can Save You card by Cult Paper Shop available HERE.

Feel so gaaahhhh! these days with all the usual holiday demands - the lack of tree at my house, family Christmas shopping, so much wonderful cool-as-all-get-out new stock coming into the store, the awesome holiday events (Promenade rocked!)... It can be overwhelming, so I sometimes have to remind myself to have fun.  

And that's the thing.  Most of the demands we put on ourselves this season are a result of what we think others expect of us, not a result of what others have told us they expect.  Pinterest board ideas are not your job.  If they were, then yes, you'd accomplish a bunch of those DIYs and probably get your home in Midwest Living, but...

Maybe it's easiest to write a list of actual expectations (a gift for your child under the tree, some food in the house on Christmas day, a fun traditional family activity, a neighborhood cocktail crawl) and work out from there. When you write the list, you see the things you want to accomplish within the framework of giving - doing what really needs to get done to make the holiday special for those you love.  And like that, the holidays are fun again - sure, there's still a ton to get done, but now crying into a bottle of Baileys isn't one of them.

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