Archive for December, 2011

It’s no secret I LOVE Christmas cards. Usually getting the mail just means getting unwanted bills and unwanted advertisements. It’s no fun at all, but come December I’m excited to go see the beautiful cards that arrive every day. I love seeing all those photos people have taken great care to get printed and mailed out. They make me happy. I used to tape them to my back door, but I saw this idea on Pinterest and thought I would give it a try. Everyone who comes over notices it right away and stops to look at each card.

I like being able to easily display the cards with clothespins, but now I am out of room to add the new ones and my branches are definitely heavily weighed down. I need sturdier branches next time. I also just have to add getting Christmas cards from my clients makes me SO happy. It is so fun to see how you use the images from your sessions.

I saw this idea on Pinterest as well. I love looking back at old Christmas cards. I keep the photo cards for this very reason. This year I punched holes in all my old cards and put these rings through them and now they are a nice little book for us to look back at our loved ones through the years. It took me only about 10 minutes to make, and it will be so easy to add to each year, or make a new one.

Every year we HAVE to go cut down a live tree for our Christmas tree. The kids demand it. Last year I was so busy with photo sessions I suggested we just pick one up at Costco. Their reaction was quick and violent, and completely unexpected. They cried, screamed, and acted as if I was taking away their favorite toy. They insisted our tradition of cutting down our tree cannot be changed… for any reason. I’m pretty sure that if I had gone ahead with my Costco tree idea they would have required therapy, and I would be blamed for destroying their childhood.

This year when the subject of a Christmas tree came up they started out by letting me know that we are NOT getting a tree at Costco, Home Depot, or anywhere else but the tree farm. We made our trek out to the tree lot in the only 2 hour block of free time on a busy Saturday. It was incredibly windy and cold, but the kids were in heaven running around searching for the perfect tree. The tradition lives on one more year, and probably until the youngest moves out.