You may be freaking out about how to make baby's first Christmas (or Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah) absolutely perfect. You may be stressed out, already, about starting new family traditions or keeping up with well established roles.
Lets open ourselves to an idea: becoming a parent gives us the opportunity to experience joy, belonging, and love, but there is no guarantee it will be done perfectly. We may try to keep the idea of perfection that comes with each new baby alive along as possible, but if you let go of your idea of what should happen, you open up to the possibility of what could happen. And that may be 100 times better than you imagined.
So a few things...