At this point of the season I just want to scratch everything off of my list! This weekend I decided to tackle or attack our Christmas cards. My husband loves for us to send out a card with a picture of the boys. By the time you figure out who to send them to and who sent you one last year that wasn’t on your list, before you know it you are sending out a ton of cards.
Here I am Saturday evening stuffing the picture into each card one after another. Now I am signing all of them with all of the members of our family. Where is my family during all of this, are you thinking? I am thinking the same thing! My oldest one is watching the football game (Texas vs. Nebraska), my youngest one is playing (Texas vs. Nebraska on PlayStation) and my husband is in and out listening to the game on the radio.
I decide to enlist in some help. I called a family timeout, TV time out and asked my husband to grab his radio. I had my oldest putting the cards in the envelope and my youngest putting stamps and return address labels on the envelopes (crooked and diagonal but they are on) while my husband and I addressed the envelopes. It was quite a production. Sure I would have loved to have Christmas songs playing on the stereo and yes we could have all been sitting in front of the fire place…enjoying the Christmas spirit. Instead we are on a roll, knocking them out!!
I know you are wondering where I am going with this? As we were finishing our task as fast as we can, my husband notices that one of the envelopes is not staying shut. He looks to see who it is addressed to and notices it is for one of his friends he likes to tease and joke with all the time. My “three boys”, yes “three boys” decide they are going to tape it, put Ninja Turtle stickers all over it, put a band-aid on it to keep it closed. They wrote on the envelope “warning contents may be hot”!
Never in my life have I heard the three of them laugh so hard, they thought they were so funny! We started off by attacking my Christmas cards as fast as we could so we could all go back to what we were doing and ended up having the time of our life. Our new tradition is to pick one card every year and “decorate” it Lehman style. Who would have known that it would have turned out to be a great Christmas memory and isn’t that what it is all about?!?!?
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Posted by: L.C. Evans on December 24, 2009 at 7:15 pm
I love the way you involved the whole family in what used to be a chore. I wished I’d thought of that.