Snail or Email or What Kind of Holiday Cards?
The tradition of mailing out Christmas cards has changed in recent years, with the price of postage, but I still say there is nothing like going to the mailbox and bringing back a stack of cards.
To sit in your favorite place and to open them like precious gifts. (This is where I say thank you to card companies who do such a fabulous job on design, like Tiny Prints.)
I had just commented to my family that “we’re just not getting the cards this year,” like we have in the past.
But then 2 days straight there were about 8 pictures cards that came in the mail.
That’s 16 beautiful gifts from family and friends! And now more have rolled in …
Next year I have an idea of how I’ll display them, but for this year … smack-dab on the refrigerator where we can all enjoy.
On a sunny, wintery day I sat down and addressed each envelope.
It took time, but I actually enjoy writing out the names and thinking about each family.
Here are a few of our card pictures from the past. The boys.
And then their sister came along.
And then today.
Do you send snail-mail cards, email cards, Christmas letters … or how do you send a holiday greeting to your friends and family?
(Tiny Prints provided my cards but did not pay me to write this post today.)
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I send snail mail cards but only received five cards this year. FIVE!! I’m grieving over the changes brought about by social media, which IMHO is the culprit. I’m anti facebook, twitter, and blogs so the snail mail cards are really important to me. I felt lonely from lack of cards this year. Sounds silly… but it’s true. It’s a dying tradition.