My tips for avoiding stress at Christmastime:
1. Avoid the crunch. Spend some time throughout the year buying gifts for the people you love, and also put in the effort in the months ahead of Christmas to be extra annoying so friends/family won’t want you to come to their holiday parties. With anyone who remains on [...]
Ahhhh the holiday season. I keep forgetting that the holidays apply to us as well. My own Christmas shopping efforts have been weak and I haven’t put up any decorations other than our little home made advent calendar. I gave the boys little cloth bags to decorate and we wrote numbers on them, then put [...]
I stayed up stupidly late. All afternoon I was like one of those obsessed stalkers or killer robots from a movie except all I was programmed to do was grab a 40 minute block of sleep. I kept setting the boys up with something to do — here! Play with this! Watch Koala Brothers! They’re [...]
Yesterday the orders slowed down so much that now I’m sad because Was that it? Is the holiday rush over? Maybe all of my customers are Jewish and it’s too late for them to buy gifts. Or! Maybe this is the calm before the storm that people are always talking about. I don’t know.
Ah [...]
Yep I’m super posty lately. I always update my blog right before bed and when I’m too tired to type words I end up with a bunch of incoherent auto-saved drafts and no actual posts. But! this week I’m pushing past the tiredness to get things done during the quiet hours. Ahhhh the quiet hours. [...]