Since Thanksgiving I have been receiving Christmas cards from my overacheiver friends. Yes, your children are adorable. And yes, I am glad you have me on your list still. It's nice to confirm you're not dead at least once a year.
I've been meaning to send out my own Christmas card. I have the cards. The dilemma is, what to put inside it. The last few times I've sent a Christmas card, I've sent a "letter" that was mostly pictures. I get these letters from my married friends with all these cute little pictures of their kids, and I think, heck, why wait! I'm cute. I'm sure they want pictures of me. If I have your address you have probably seen it. The year it was really easy was the year I went to Europe. Plus I think I had skipped a year so I combined two years of pictures. But most years, when I don't have an exciting life, Christmas card time is a time for reflection on just how exciting my life is NOT. Plus there are certain things that I'm not willing to share in a group letter, so if you wanna know what's up with me, you're going to have to buckle down and write me an email. One or two sentences will suffice. As you know it doesn't take too much to talk me into talking about myself what might seem like endlessly.
So I"m trying to decide. Should I do a letter? What do I put in it? What did I do this year that's worth immortalizing on Christmas paper? Or should I just insert a few pictures and call it good?
I will tell you one thing I will NOT do. I will not send out a mass email. I'm all for not killing trees and all, but to me, mass emails send the very special message, "I'm SO busy with my real life I can't be brought to keep up on your address and lick the envelope. Or send you an individual email. So here ya go. Hope you have the program I created it in." And I'm not down with that. And NO, some day I will NOT understand.
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