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  • Anxiety,  Holidays,  travel

    My Adventures in Anxiety During the Merriest Time of the Year

    It was Thanksgiving morning. I got up to get the meal going and I stood in the kitchen shaking. My hands were trembling. My anxiety was through the roof. The holidays are known to be stressful, especially for moms. Planning merriment for a large family can suck the life out of an already worn out woman. If the kids don’t feel fed, loved and heaped in family traditions during this time of year, it’s mom’s fault right? We make the menus, plan a service project, make the gift lists, make the gift-giving for kids appear evenly dispersed monetarily. We try to decorate according to Pinterest standards, bake goodies for neighbors,…