Let’s just say it out loud: the holidays are a lot . There are expectations—spoken, unspoken, and aggressively marketed. There is the hustle and bustle, lists upon lists, and a strange sense that if you don’t do all  the things, you’re somehow “doing Christmas wrong.” The shopping, the cooking, the decorating, the scheduling, the concerts, the gatherings, the matching pajamas… it all adds up. Somewhere in the middle of it all, we forget what the meaning is—or we don’t even st