Christmas is a week away. Why is it that during the seasons there is so much pressure? I have six kids and work a full time job at a hospital. So to start off for Christmas my first priority is of course my kids, but can you even imagine buying Christmas for six kids? Maybe you can, maybe you can’t but that isn’t even all of it. Next, I have two sides of my family that does Christmas get togethers and exchanges gifts. Therefore, I have to buy six kids gift, a woman’s gift, and a man’s gift for each get together. On top of that this year I was invited to a coworkers house for a get together with gift exchange, plus a work party with another gift exchange.

I understand that companies like to celebrate during the holidays as well and make their employees feel better for awhile, but do they not understand that for some people it is just unnecessary stress. What makes this more difficult for me, is that my job revolves around the doctors, so if they take time off I don’t work, plus we don’t work during holidays. So for example Thanksgiving was the last holiday which we were off for and the week after a doctor took off leaving few hours of work coming my way.

I am grateful for my job, the doctors and everything in between. I enjoy having the holidays off with my family and getting to spend time with them but life honestly makes it difficult to be able to spend time with family, work, and support them all at the same time. This has been the best job that I could have ever asked for, and I couldn’t imagine working anywhere else. So even though life throws struggles around the holidays, I am still grateful with what I can manage and I am happy with my life.