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	Christmas Cards by Debbie Farmer
Astrology, Tarot, and Self Improvement for the New Age.

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Christmas Cards
by Debbie Farmer

Face it: it's that time of year again. And I don't just mean to trim trees or hang lights or buy gifts. I mean it's time to get out the gold pen and the holiday stamps and send out your annual Christmas card.

Make no mistake about it, choosing the right card takes a lot of thought. Are you the type who likes cuddly baby animals or more of a religious theme? Do you prefer reindeer, Santa Claus or winter snow scenes? Or are you, like my friend Shirley, more of the Gingerbread Man type?

So this year I've decided to bypass the whole card-choosing issue and do what any typical, proud mother would do: find a picture of my family and turn it into a card.

I started by sorting through the last year's batch of pictures for one where my entire family looked happy, relaxed and well-tanned, preferably taken somewhere in nature. Not too much to ask, right? But, shockingly enough, after going through several stacks I found, you guessed it, not one single picture that fit this criteria. So I went back through and tried to find a picture with three of us smiling and one of us with good hair. Then a picture with most of us clean and sort of grimacing. And then finally just any picture that had all four of us in it fully dressed at the same time. Still nothing, except for one taken in the mid 90's on the day we brought my son home from the hospital. But this would only shock and confuse people.

It was obvious from all this that we'd have to get a new picture taken just for the card. So we all got into our good velvet clothes and I called my neighbor Linda to come over with her camera.

"Quick, come take our picture," I hissed into the phone. "Before someone gets a running nose or sneezes or picks up the cat or something."

Now Linda is an avid picture taker so you'd think that chances are that ONE picture would come out decent enough to be used as a Christmas card. YOU WOULD THINK. So imagine my surprise, then, when I got the pictures back and saw 24 pictures of a rather surprised looking red-eyed family standing in front of various household appliances.

So I took matter into my own hands and moved on to plan number two: take pictures of the kids outside among all of the festive holiday decorations.

Mind you, I use the term "festive" loosely since all we had in front of our house was a string of colored light bulbs put up sometime in 1992.

Then I remembered the upscale neighborhood, three blocks away, where each year everyone went overboard with decorating their front lawn.

It was a brilliant plan.

"You can't take pictures of our children in front of stranger's houses," my husband said. "What will our friends think?"

"That we got a bigger house and trendier Christmas lights?"

"Very funny."

The good news is that these pictures came out great. I had fabulous shots of my children posing in front of cutout wooden snowmen, reindeer, and even between the Three Wise Men in a miniature cardboard manger.

The bad news is that in the end my husband was right, it just seemed, well, deceitful to send those out. Instead I chose a rather plain picture of the kids sitting on the living room floor holding an ornament.

But that's OK. You see, today I received a photo Christmas card from my old college friend Lisa who lives in a condo in South Florida. It was a lovely scene of her family gathered around a cozy fireplace mantel holding a cat. Except that, as far as I know, she doesn't own a cat or, for that matter, a fireplace. In fact, now that I take a closer look, I'm not even sure that's her real husband.

And somehow that comforts me.

(c) 2003 Debbie Farmer, All rights reserved.

Debbie Farmer is the author of Don't Put Lipstick on the Cat! available at Amazon.com
visit her website: Family Daze

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