You get 80 'Holiday Seasons' Are you enjoying any of them?

Disrupted schedules & increased 'together' time worsen quality of life for lots of us. Sound familiar? Here are some things you can try.

Last Thanksgiving, I spent 20 minutes hiding in my uncle’s garage pretending to take an important phone call.

The call? Oh it was very important.

Checking my email. Twice. Then scrolling through weather forecasts for cities I don’t live in.

Inside the house, 30 people were having the “MOST wonderful time of the year.”

Outside, I was Googling “how long is socially acceptable to be on a work call during Thanksgiving.”

If this sounds familiar, welcome to the club nobody wanted to join but here we are anyway.

Holidays are sold to us like this beautiful Norman Rockwell painting where everyone’s laughing, the turkey is perfect and Grandma’s telling heartwarming stories while snow gently falls outside-

But the reality is more like being trapped in a sensory theme park designed by someone who grew up alone in the woods and never experienced overstimulation.

I’ve never, NEVER really enjoyed them.

47 conversations happening simultaneously, kids using the hallway as a racetrack, someone burning somethi…