7 Tips for a Less Stressful Holiday Season with Your Family

They say that it is the most wonderful time of the year, but they often conveniently forget to say that it can also be the most stressful time of the year. We want to enjoy the holidays, celebrating happily with family and friends, but not quite knowing how we are possibly going to get it all done. Sound familiar? Please don't tell my kids, but I still have no idea what my kids are getting for Hanukkah gifts this year. A couple of them are planned out, but for the most part it is going to be a holiday-by-the-seat-of-our-pants kind of year. I should probably decorate the house today too. (Yikes!) Between wrapping up year-end items for work, entertaining family, budgeting for gifts, buying gifts, wrapping gifts, sending cards, cooking, baking, and decorating, when is there time or energy left over to spread that good old holiday cheer? Talk about a Christmas miracle. It turns out that there are a few simple, handy-dandy ways to make the holidays more enjoyable with family and friends in a way that really matters. Click through for 7 tips for a less stressful holiday season with your family! -By Jessica Cohen

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