Christmas Cards!!!

Last night, I dug out my BOX of CARDS...those that I bought last year on SALE, at the end of the SEASON(gotta save where you can).  I grabbed my BIG address book and Christmas Stickers...come on now...you need BLING on your envelopes.  Think how pretty they are and how they make those smile when they pull that shiny, red envelope out of their drab mailbox. YES...I mail Christmas Cards...anyone can send an email/e-card...this is more personal, cause I took the time, with my fountain pen, and wrote out 25 cards and personal notes in each one...and yes my hand cramped up and I lost my temper when the kids shook the table and fought with toys under the table....and ate something in the corner of the kitchen...still not sure what THAT was, I am thinking it was crumbs from dinner...YES I did not sweep up...I was tired of sweeping...I sweep UP after EVERY SINGLE MEAL...its enough...I wanted to do Christmas Cards and get into that Christmas spirit dammit...ahh(a little rant of sorts)...so YES, I wrote out Christmas Cards last night and came to a few conclusions that I would like to share with you!!!

Going through my address book is like going through my past and present of new friends that I have just added. We all have lost friends or family members, and I haven't been able to cross them out. I just keep adding them whenever I get a new book, I cant leave them out.......its like I am forgetting them, moving on and I just cant do it. I have to add them, to keep them alive, in print...does that make sense?? I just put brackets around their names/address/phone number/birthday date.....they are still here with me.

I go through each page and write out my cards....and most of them I am glad that I got see them once or twice throughout the year, some more than others. For those I rarely saw.....I wrote hoping to see them more and wished them a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Do you ever feel that you are lying when you write in these cards? I do want them to have a GREAT HOLIDAY SEASON but when I write, "hope to see you in the New Year!?" I'm thinking....are we really going to see them?? Or is it just the stuff you write...wishing and hoping for the best in 2012...a NEW year...where anything is possible and achievable. I know we are busy and you are busy...but surely, we can get together one day here and there?? AND what about those Christmas letters.....where you read about someones good fortune, marriages, or births. You never hear about those divorces, those that cheated or were cheated on, we lost money on stock markets or that they just had an overall miserable year.  Come on...lets make these letters INTERESTING!!

After writing them all out, and placing them in the groups, International, American and Canadian....I wonder how many will actually send one back!? Its not that I am expecting one in return....I mean it WOULD be nice, spread the holiday cheer...but I know some that never do!! I have been writing one every year for eight years...and never a reply or acknowledgment...like come on, you know you got it....respond in some way!! YOU are NOT that BUSY!! I know!!
How can you just ignore the CARD?? Unless you really don't like us...then tell us, but you MUST still like us, cause you still do things with us and its not us asking to do these things with you, you are asking to do these things with us....so??? Maybe I've gotten the wrong address? Let me know! Some kind of acknowledgement...please!! I just guess that everyone is different and everyone does things in their own way. Perhaps I just have that extra HOLIDAY CHEER and I am spreading it WITH YOU!!

Another thing that I DREAD.......and I forget every year to look for them..... envelopes with self adhesive tabs........I HATE LICKING THE ENVELOPE...cant these companies come up with tasty solutions??? Every time I lick an envelope...I think back to that Seinfeld episode, where George's fiance, Susan, licks all the envelopes and dies from poisoning..gotta love it!!! But I am still here....all licked, signed and stamped...just waiting to send them out......after the Santa Claus Parade...the official kick off to the HOLIDAY SEASON!! Or at least it should be!!