Things have changed. Oh, how things have changed. 1. The photographic subjects in our cards are not two well-behaved love-drunk adults. They're two small, short-attention-spanned children.
2. I love Christmas cards a million times more now than I did then.
Every single card I send is sent with love. I know the people in our lives (and the friends & family we don't get to see often) want to see what the kids look like and I want them to know we're thinking of them during the holidays and I'm also secretly hoping to get cards with their kids or cats or dogs sent back to me.
Despite the challenge of getting our two little guys to smile, look at the camera and get their hands out of their eye, ear, nose... whatever we do it. We usually get pictures good enough to print and frame for the house, so it's a double score. We send our little picture in hand-addressed envelopes (not cause I'm old-school, because we don't have a printer.) I hope with inappropriate levels of anxiety that they will all reach the proper recipients still intact and they will convey my unwritten "We're thinking of you." message. And I (now not-so-secretly) hope for cards to come in return so I can see my friends and their kids smiling at me saying "We're thinking of you, too."
7 comments:
Yours was our 3rd card-- bronze medal! I, too, am totally into Christmas cards and I DO kick it old-school in most ways related to the world of cards (actual card with separate picture, personalized message on each one, handwritten addresses, etc). ;-) But you'll have to wait awhile to get our "I'm thinking of you" wishes...haven't even attempted a pic yet! I do have the cards and the stamps, though, so that's something, right?
We still have the card you sent after your wedding on our fridge (2 moves and thus 2 fridges later). I'm now going to brave the cold to see if this years card is in the mailbox (Field is terrible about getting the mail regularly).
If Matt didn't pick up our mail on his way in every night we'd NEVER get it. It never occurs to me, unless I'm mailing something out like Netflix or Christmas cards!
I'm stuffing ours to be mailed tomorrow as I read this post!
Got it today! Very cute pic of the boys! In emk terms, you win our silver medal. :)
What! No kind words about the infamous Christmas letters? OK so at this stage you may think them evil, but as your kids grow and as you have more friends and family that you don't see very often, you will grow to look forward to receiving not only pictures, but those (often too detailed, sometimes not so humble, and many times quite funny) holiday missives. You might even write one yourself . . . ! Just wrote my 15th!! :-) Gigi
I don't plan to write Christmas letters, because I blog. My biznass is already all over the web, right?!
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