Holiday Stress

"It's the most wonderful time of the year," normally but when things seem abnormal it is stressful.  Mom is exhibiting stressful behavior.  She has been making piles.  I have come into her room and on her bed are piles of paper she has collected.  She stacks them and then a few minutes later they are shifted into different piles.  When I got home on Friday, after a long day at work, she had  piles on her bed and related that she was trying to get her Christmas cards sent.  Mom was so anxious that I sat right down with her and helped her figure out who she wanted to send the cards to and what she wanted to write.  She had wrote one or two cards herself and said that she didn't think they made much sense.  I looked at them and could tell that she was having a hard time.  She wrote in a circular pattern around the edges of the card - not organized but in a random way.  She related that she was having a hard time writing.  So we sat and I wrote for her.  We got the cards done and this seemed to calm her down.