I love my family, but gatherings on both coasts went badly. I think it is a high pressure holiday in a bad economy. One cannot express how grateful we are that Christ came, lived, and died, for us, before being resurrected and giving us the hope of eternal life. But, this economic boom that we now call Christmas, SUCKS. Let us just have the holiday (HOLY DAY?) together and leave the pressure out. We simply are not strong enough for all that.