I love Christmas cards. But it's been an overwhelming season for us and though I hate to admit it, I'm probably only going to be sending cards out to those who've sent us one. That is SO not me.
When I was 10 years old my dad sat me down with a pen, a stack of Christmas cards and envelopes and his address book. He showed me how to sign the card, address the envelope and stick a stamp up the the right hand corner. That was my first year doing Christmas cards and I was hooked. I have done them religiously (first for my parents/sibling family and now for my husband/children family) and with GREAT pleasure ever since then.
But it's a dying tradition you guys. And I'm sooooo sad about it. Every year we get less and less in return and it makes me so bummed. It's a beautiful tradition but this year will be my first time breaking from that tradition. I don't like it but it's just too expensive for a starving student family and too time consuming with so many orders to sew up and get out the door before and after Christmas (woohoo for a new etsy store!).
We did get the girls together, all casual-like on the couch, to take a picture for the few cards I'm going to mail soon. And I thought I'd turn this post into a virtual Christmas card and send it to all of you! My sweet bloggy friends!
Which one do you like best? I like myself in the first one better but Elle's smile in the second is too cute. Did you send out cards this year? Are you sad about the fizzling of the Christmas card tradition? Do you refuse to let it die? Or are you thinking, "Good riddance!"
I wonder when the stores will stop selling so many boxes of Christmas cards? I got a lot of really cute ones, deeply discounted, last year, after Christmas. It's gonna take me at least 3 years to use them all up. Well, at the rate I'm going this year, it'll take more like 8. :P
When I was 10 years old my dad sat me down with a pen, a stack of Christmas cards and envelopes and his address book. He showed me how to sign the card, address the envelope and stick a stamp up the the right hand corner. That was my first year doing Christmas cards and I was hooked. I have done them religiously (first for my parents/sibling family and now for my husband/children family) and with GREAT pleasure ever since then.
But it's a dying tradition you guys. And I'm sooooo sad about it. Every year we get less and less in return and it makes me so bummed. It's a beautiful tradition but this year will be my first time breaking from that tradition. I don't like it but it's just too expensive for a starving student family and too time consuming with so many orders to sew up and get out the door before and after Christmas (woohoo for a new etsy store!).
We did get the girls together, all casual-like on the couch, to take a picture for the few cards I'm going to mail soon. And I thought I'd turn this post into a virtual Christmas card and send it to all of you! My sweet bloggy friends!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Tony, Jamie, Ash, Britt, and Elle!
I wonder when the stores will stop selling so many boxes of Christmas cards? I got a lot of really cute ones, deeply discounted, last year, after Christmas. It's gonna take me at least 3 years to use them all up. Well, at the rate I'm going this year, it'll take more like 8. :P
