Christmas time stresses

Ugh, does anyone else have a love hate relationship with the holiday season? I love Christmas, love all that it represents but man does it stress me out. There is never enough time, never enough money, never enough {insert anything here}. At the start of every year I say, "this year I am going to start shopping early etc etc". Yea that never happens, what do they say about the best intentions? I wish there was a way to just let go of the stresses and just full out enjoy every minute leading up to and encompassing the holidays. Family dinner with underlying tension, shopping malls filled with slow moving rude people, people on vacation for the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas just everywhere. Deep Breaths, deep cleansing breaths. It's the magic of the season, or so they say.......