Happy holidays!  Happy 'getting stressed out, trying to do too many things and please everyone' season.  Oh, wait--that's not promising.

Maybe this is the year to mix it up a little and make the holidays a little easier.

Forget perfection

Sometimes gingerbread men will be missing a limb.  The tree may have a bald spot.  The kugel may not taste exactly like your Grandma's.  Know what?  None of it matters.  Decide what's truly important to you over the holidays and focus on that.

Enlist help

Once you drop the desire for Norman Rockwell levels of perfection, it gets much easier to ask for help and delegate tasks.

Kids can sign the names and .........