Lucky I definitely agree with you (but didn’t want to say it for fear of people saying I’m generalizing) that women seem to be more into holiday stress than men. If you go to a fancy department store on Christmas eve, like Lord and Taylor, the jewelry counter is 3 deep with men just out of work, willing to spend a nice amount on the wife so they have something decent to hand her on Christmas day. The women, on the other hand, have been for the past few weeks running ragged with baking, wrapping, buying, running, stressing about buying what and for whom. Maybe the men have had the job of hanging lights on the outside of the house, Yes, this is generalizing but this is what I’ve observed in my decades of being alive, and for my family, too.
I also know there are a lot of birthdays in late summer (August, specifically). That shows us that when it’s cold and dark, people hole up in their cozy caves and get busy getting busy, and 9 months later, voila, look what the Gods have given us!