My friend Stacy issued a "25 Days of Christmas" challenge.
To participate, post 25 ways you celebrate the Christmas season.
I love getting Christmas cards, and I really don't mind sending them. This year, though, probably 63% of the people I know moved. I've been on the hunt for current addresses, and instead of sending out cards in waves (as I probably should have done), I've held onto them to send all at once. Time is tick-tocking away. If you've moved and haven't gotten a request from me for your new contact information, or if we're new friends and I don't know where you live, or if you read this blog and want to be on my holiday card list (tee hee!), please e-mail me with your address. (Click here for link.)
As for the Christmas cards, I didn't think I had a suitable picture to use when it came time to print, so I drug the kids out for a photo session on an unusually cold Texas day. As if that wasn't bad enough, I didn't let them wear their coats. Then, I hauled them to Sam's Club and made them wait patiently while I clicked through thousands of pictures still on my memory card and fiddled with the various card designs. After all of that, I decided to scrap the pictures we'd just made and go with one from Hawaii.
The Rejected Photos
photo credit: cartoonchurch.com
You're lucky your kids haven't strung you up with Christmas lights after the photo fiasco! :) I like your card diagram at the top ... very true.
That cartoon is HILARIOUS! Isn't that exactly the way it goes? lol
This is totally true!!! We haven't sent them out for three years now, and I feel awfully guilty about it. It always hangs over my head... even in the middle of July. I need to get my rear in gear!
And if your little one dropped her change in our bucket, she would get many "Thanks" and "Merry Christmases" and even a candy cane. I know, the guys usually out there are so humbug!
This year I'm feeling the "naughty or too busy" sentiment. Although, over the last three years I've been sending out New Years cards, which ends up a win-win. It means I can focus on cards AFTER all the baking, shopping, wrapping, fa la la la la is over. (I'm really a fan of little to no pressure!) And since people don't really expect any cards in January, it makes their return to non-holiday normalcy a little brighter! Plus, New Years Cards can become a fun tradition! Plus, people will remember yours more because it didn't come with the "flood" of all the other well-wishes.
I love the pix even though they were rejected - where did you take them?