Jingle Hell With the holidays coming up faster than you can say "Stuff that bird," maybe it's time you slowed down enough to enjoy them.

Imagine this: You take two weeks off during the holidays, allyour work gets done, and you have unlimited time to spend withfamily and friends. Yeah, right. While other people enjoy paidvacation time to cook that Thanksgiving turkey, you're meetingclient deadlines, shipping products, holding conference calls,helping with children's holiday pageants, preparing the housefor holiday parties, and (the ever famous) planning how and when tosee your family. It's enough to make a homebased entrepreneurfeel alittle . . . well . . . stressed.

"I tend to get stressed out over the holidays," saysMia Cronan, whose Greensburg, Pennsylvania-based EMC Mediapublishes the e-zine Main Street Mom
mainstreetmom.com)."I feel tremendous pressure, and I fall short. Before I knowit, the holidays are over, I'm wiped out, and things didn'tgo the way I 'pictured.' "

Cronan, 34, says the time just before the holiday itself is herbusiest, while she's trying to gather, organize and uploadpertinent content for her e-zine. "I have had to juggle thingsby using long car trips to read my tutorials, write articles,proofread my work and do research while my husband drives,"she says. "Or I've had to stay up well after visitingrelatives have gone to bed to get caught up on my work."