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PiscesWhy I HATE Your Holiday Card
One mom says she's frustrated with all the holiday cards filling up her mailbox.
Guest blogger Jane: Holiday cards are filling my mailbox these days. Almost all of them include a "family picture," but much to my frustration and dismay, the most important family member is almost always missing: YOU! The ugly truth is that I'm not interested in seeing kids whom I've rarely or ever met in their matching outfits. I don't care in the slightest how much your offspring have changed over the course of a year. What I really want to see is how much YOU have changed. Put bluntly, I want to know if you've gotten fat, if you need Botox, or if your husband's hairline has receded past the point of no return.
Deny it all you want, but you know that what I'm saying is true. Cards that arrive without pictures of the parents make you wonder what your college friends, old neighbors, and former colleagues are hiding.
If you'll excuse me now, I need to go mail my own holiday photo cards. Unfortunately, there was a screw-up at the photo lab and my husband and I were accidentally cropped out of the picture.
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I love any christmas cards that I receive. I love that my family or friends took the time and thought of me to send a card to me. Picture or no picture…… Thanks for sending me a card. I especially love the ones with pictures. Thank you and keep them coming.
I always think the photos with parents in them look smug. Not sure why, though maybe it’s because the pictures are usually from a cruise, Disneyland, or some showoff-y resort. But if someone sent me an informal photo with the whole family in the backyard, say, now that would be fun.
I hate the annual (bragging) newsletter.
I agree, I totally prefer a picture….. with or without you the mom and dad. Usually we know what the year happenings were.
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If that’s the way you feel, then so be it, but I have two reasons why I sent photos of just the kids this year.
1. I feel like a total dope getting family pics done at JCPenny, or similar places. Showing up looking our best, amongst other families doing the same, feels so staged and embarrassing, and I’m never a huge fan of the photos that are produced that way, anyway.
2. Getting my husband and I into a photo WITH our kids is next to impossible. Or, in fact, just getting a photo of my husband and I alone rarely happens. Life is crazy right now, and honestly, the kids are the main focus of most photos.
So while I hear what you’re saying, just try to be glad the families even got cards out this year!
Okay - I like the holiday photo - whether it be of kids or of the whole family. It is nice to see how my friends’ and family members’ kids are growing that I rarely get to see. Plus I am a photo-aholic, so I enjoy looking at pictures. BUT, the holiday letter can definitely be too much information…and sometimes too long and boring to read. If you don’t update through the year with what is going on with your life, don’t sum it up in a two page impersonal letter. I probably won’t read it.
wow this is interesting.
I totally agree with you! I want to see pictures of my friends, not just their kids. I think it is odd that the kids represent the face of the family during holiday card season.
Great article. Enjoyable reading. I have got a single observation to give about funny shirts.
classic….so true!