An honest Christmas card

I am among the folks who send out an annual holiday card featuring photos of my kids. Like most people, I spend a fair amount of time selecting the most adorable, awesome pictures of my kids (and Joey and me) that I can find. And most of the holiday cards we receive feature the same idyllic family photos – everyone looks their best.

This year, as I was perusing the gazillion photos I have of the kids, I stumbled on a few that capture what life is really like in my house. Zany, goofy, ridiculous and chaotic. I was SO close to going with the card you see below. I figured it would be memorable and stand out from the others entering people’s mailboxes this year. But then I realized that for the people who do not see us much, our Christmas card was potentially the only glimpse they’d get of us for the year. And I didn’t want them to remember my family as Those Freaks, though there is a chance that’s what they think of us no matter what photos I put on our card.

So, to you, my friends, family and anonymous readers, I give you the honest version of our family Christmas card. It’s only appropriate, seeing this blog is where I tend to show my most authentic self. If I don’t get a chance to get back here to say it before either The End of the World or Christmas, I wish you and yours either the best last days on Earth or, if we all survive, the happiest of holidays.

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