Card Me!
By Margaret Travis

We've come to this time of year. To send photo Christmas cards or to not send photo Christmas cards?

I always begin with good intentions.

I take pictures of my children through the late summer and fall with an eye toward, “I wonder if this would make a good Christmas card?” I download them to my computer and put them in a special folder if they are Christmas card “worthy.” I print them out and demand my husband tell me which one is best and which one would make the best Christmas card.

And then Thanksgiving arrives.

And the cards haven’t been ordered. The background hasn’t been decided upon. Colored envelopes or white ones? No pithy message has been selected. In short, it hasn’t been done.

And then the first of December comes bearing down upon me, and I still haven’t picked a photo or a border or decided whether to have the folded kind or the postcard kind. And the message! Gack! What can I say that will be personal enough for family and friends but I can still send to people I work with?

And soon we are at that time of year when it is too late. And all those good intentions are for naught. And I put away my hopes and dreams of being organized. My plans to get my cards out on time and in an orderly fashion are dashed.

You suppose anyone has a card available to celebrate National Prune Breakfast Month? I have the perfect picture of my kids for that.