Tonight with chaos all around me..presents to wrap, groceries to buy and a to-do list that seems to multiply overnight, I decided to take a break! Curled up in my favorite reading chair with the glow of the Christmas tree lights in the room, I began looking through all of the Christmas cards that have arrived in our mailbox over the past few weeks. I just love Christmas cards, beautiful religious types or humorous ones but my favorite are photo cards. Sending cards at Christmas seems to quickly be a thing of the past. Oh, I know too well the hassle of taking the picture, ordering the cards, double checking addresses and we will not even discuss the postage rates! For the past 26 years, I have swore it would be my last year to do so but like giving birth you forget the pain and just enjoy the prize of your labor so I round up the family and we take one more Christmas card picture!
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| 1994 |
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| 2004 |
The very first card my husband and I posed for was at the place we met and this collectors item announced our then recent engagement! The cards have always been photos, majority have featured our two children growing up over the years and from what I hear, plastered on refrigerators across the country. More recently, I took to adding a letter with the sorted detailed of our lives with a twist of humor. Be glad I practiced on those folks before I began blogging! Promise to keep sending photo cards and a letter if my family will keep posing for the picture, sure hope to find a card or two in my mailbox next Christmas as well.
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| 2011 |
We look so good!
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