Christmas Cards

Christmas Cards are one of the things I stress over every year.  Last year I made it through the P's in my address book and then ran out of time to finish the alphabet.  Two years ago I didn't send any except to a few handpicked relatives. I'm going to blame the baby for that one, but I felt bad about the negligence.

A wise friend once told me that you don't HAVE to send Christmas cards.  I nearly choked.  You mean I could not send cards AND not beat myself up about it?  It brings up that question of who AM I doing it for, anyway?  

A smart friend of mine has chosen to stop sending Christmas cards. Instead her family makes a slideshow and e-mails a link to it to all their friends and relatives.  With the money they save on postage and cards, they make a donation to a charity that their kids help select.

The thing is that I like sending Christmas cards.  I'm just not very good at it.  I like seeing the list of people I care about enough to want to send season's greetings.  I like sharing a picture of my family and a letter in the card.  I like to try to include a snippet of the gospel message in hopes of tempting some who are far from God to rekindle their faith.  So we'll take another whack at it this year.  Maybe I should go work on that instead of blogging.  :-)