This is the closest thing you are likely to get to a Christmas card from us, and it's all because I lack the Martha Stewart gene. I love getting people's Christmas cards, and I even used to write the Christmas letter for the Rice family. The writing part I could totally get into. But I lack the ability to do the part where you orchestrate a photo in which you are all simultaneously not blinking or talking or just plain looking weird and then take that photo to be printed with a nice Christmas border. Looking back on it from my new vantage point as a parent of just one small child, it strikes me as miraculous that our family of seven was ever able to take a passable Christmas photo. Hats off to my mom for doing it ever year, much less having the energy after the photo shoot to actually mail the darned things. But unless someone can come do all that part for me, the non-writing work part, you'll all just have to read about us here, on the blog, where I spill my guts on a daily basis regardless of the season. Maybe the fact that you get so much more information here can make up for the lack of a physical card. On the other hand, I don't imagine it would work out too well if you tried to hang your laptop on your refrigerator with a magnet alongside the Christmas cards of all the organized people you know. Yeah. I definitely do not advise that.

Photo credit to Erika at My Little Garden, our good friend, Lily's mom, and fellow December Photo Project blogger.