If you haven't seen me around much in Blogland this week, one reason is that I'm still busy writing Christmas cards. The greetings flying off to foreign countries were posted early (a couple of weeks ago), but I'm still working on the Swedish ones...
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I don't know why I ever stopped sending out Christmas cards, perhaps I shall start again next time.
It is a real time consuming chore! Thanks again for yours, I love it!
Thank you, Monica - yours has arrived, and of course you know I love the picture! :-)
Same here; I have quite a bit of material for blog posts, but have been busy with other, typical pre-Christmas things.
This year I decided to use Christmas cards as decorations. I found old cards from years past and strung them at the windows. So every day I am reminded of friends and relatives who have died or moved away. It is like holding them close once again. One card was made by my son 40 years ago. It is a pleasure to see that again. I send cards each year with a newsletter of family highlights. This year I also wrote a Christmas quiz as a mini gift. You can tell who cares about you by the effort they put into communications. Cards do that eloquently. It costs mainly time. The postage is less than a cuppa. This year I sent all the cards early because I doubted the post office's efficiency. (The quarantining was also delaying our mail.) I admit that I am posting a card every few days to my granddaughter, and not always signing my name. Sometimes I am Santa's Helper and sometimes The Christmas Fairy.
Merry christmas
Amy, for me it's always been a part of my Advent/Christmas traditions that I enjoy, so I still send quite a few. I don't really blame anyone who quit doing so, though. After all it does take a bit of time, cards need to be bought (or made), and the postage keeps going up etc. With some friends who have switched to email or FB greetings, I just do the same. Depends a bit on the kind of friendship!
Ginny, yours has arrived too! Thank you! :)
Meike, your greeting has arrived as well - thanks! Sometimes I really wonder how people who do Big Christmas celebrations cope with it all - I feel I manage to keep myself pretty busy this time of year even though I neither have a lot of presents to buy nor parties to plan!
Louise, I bet your granddaughter loves those cards! :) (Have you ever read "Letters from Father Christmas" by J. R. R. Tolkien? It's a collection of letters he wrote between 1920 and 1943 for his children, published posthumously after his death.)
In the flat where I live now, I've developed a tradition of putting up ribbons by the door opening between my living room and my study, on which I fasten incoming Christmas cards as they arrive. (And if times should come when I no longer receive any, I too have a box of old ones I could dig into instead...)
Merry Christmas, Sandra! (And after get my cards sent off, I shall probably have time to say that a number of more times online before and during the actual Holiday! Ho-ho-ho...)
Pretty similar here, Monica - I can not complain about lack of something to do, and really don*t know how people cope with big family events that require large amounts of presents, shopping, cooking, decorating...!
PS: The photo of the plate of cherries on Graham's blog is one of mine :-)
Like you, I do enjoy sending and receiving Christmas cards. You show pretty ones in your photo. I appreciate being your pen friend and thank you for the card with its cozy scene and personal touches.
Happy Christmas, Terra. It's been all Christmas cards for a while now... But there's a new Postcard Year waiting just round the corner... ;)
That's the third time I've seen something about Tolkien's book and before a few days ago I'd never heard of it. I've had Tree and Leaf at the side of my bed for ages. I'd better add this one before next Christmas.
Graham, I in turn have never heard of Tree and Leaf before. Had to google to get what you were referring to!! :)
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