[Open gift of stopwatch] Christmas is my favorite time of the year, but like many of us it is absolutely one of the busiest times of the year. If there is ever a season where you always feel like you are short on time, where you get frustrated and angry in having to wait in line, and where you almost feel like right up to the holiday you are trying to enjoy, you still can’t get it all done - it is Christmas!

Christmas is so different when you are a child as to when you are an adult. When I was a child, it seemed liked time just slowed down to a glacier-like pace and I thought Christmas would never get here. When you become an adult it not only goes by like a blur, but in a way you can’t wait for it to be over. Either way, it is the time factor that seems to kill us.

I want to make a conf…