Ideal Cards
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 7:43 PM
This year I am feeling decidedly ho-ho-hum about our family Christmas card. Last year’s card was really something—a beautiful picture of our entire family that I would have enlarged to an 11-by-14, maybe bigger, had my pixels not been set incorrectly on my camera. Thank you, Lord, for helping me avoid vanity.
For a variety of reasons, I resorted to using the photo from our parish directory this year, and while the photo itself is not bad, it has a definite studio feel about it—complete with baby blue shag carpet draped over my lap with Henry perched on top.
Um. Yeah. Super classy.
A few weeks ago, I just had this urge to mark stuff off my list, so I sat down and ordered those photos as my Christmas cards. As I mentioned, the photo itself isn’t bad, and I decided that this year, with an almost-toddler and writing a book and just life in general, I didn’t want to spend a lot of time fretting over this one detail of the season.
And yet, here I am, fretting.
Because the cards came in and they are so very studioesque. And plain. Not bad, but not great either.
A few nights ago, I decided that I would add some ribbon to the top of the card, to give it a bit of pizzazz. I punched holes in the top of six or seven cards and strung some lovely sheer candy apple red ribbon to form a bow. After a few, however, I looked at the card and thought something was off. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but it just didn’t look right.
After a few more, I stood back and realized the problem: in our family photo, Paul is standing up, his head is center and top of the picture. The red ribbon just above his black hair was giving him the look of… Minnie Mouse.
So much for pizzazz and saving time. This year, it will be a very plain, very Minnie-free card from the Family Balducci.
Merry Christmas, love me.
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