It's Christmas card time

I got my first 3 Christmas cards this week, and I was so excited! Michael wonders how its any different news than I get from blogging, but I don't know, its different. 2 of the 3 are blogging friends (Amy and Tobi) but the third (roommate turned cousin-in-law Christy) isn't, and so of course that was fun. I do LOVE getting pictures and they all get taped up together on my wall of fame. I keep that up until almost Valentines day because I love my friends and family near and far smiling at me from my hallway.

My feeling on Christmas cards: I would LOVE a letter AND a picture. Sometimes I get both, some just one or the other, sometimes just a signature on a generic card. I'm not such a fan of the latter. If you are going to make the effort to put a stamp on a card and send it to me, please give me more than a signature! Plus, I do love pictures, so if you do just one, a picture will suffice. But even when I get just that, from my faraway non blogging, non emailing friends (oh yeah, they are out there) I want to know the details! Yes, I am one of those that enjoys the details of a Christmas letter. Not "Jane takes dance, Peter plays soccer" but the funny quotes and the stories and the intricacies. But really, how much can you share from one letter? I try my best and as usual, I probably share too many details. So much so that I usually have to forego the cute stationary I found because I can't type over it...I have to make my font size 8, single spaced. I'm not sure my grandparents can read that very well. But if they care....they'll get out their reading glasses, or magnifying glass.

On the days that I get several letters, I open them all at once, take my stack to a nice reading area and devour every morsel....I laugh, I smile, I am in awe that my friends are off living their lives in their own ways. Do others do that for mine? Who knows? I'd like to think that they do.

I usually have them all ready to get and send them out the day after Thanksgiving...the first official day of the Christmas holiday. This year, I had a different plan. We just had our pictures taken yesterday, and I once again asked Michael if he wanted to write the letter, to which he grimaced, and I said..."Yeah, I know, its me again." It's brain power, I tell ya.

My goal is to have everything ready to mail out by Friday. So any of you that didn't get our card last year, local or not, email me your address and I'll add you to the list. I don't often cut from my list. It's a good, strong list of people I'm not sure are still living, but I'd like to think of them reading my Christmas card each year, as they remember the times of yesteryear that we spent with each other. I've got fond memories, surely they do, too.

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