I have had the cmas cards now for two weeks and haven't even opened the package. I am exhausted from a crazy week and it picks back up tomorrow, so I really need to get them done today, but honestly, all I want to do is nothing. I'm considering firing up my spreadsheet of addresses and doing a mail merge and printing labels. Is that awful?
Re: Confession time.
Not at all. I'm all for hand-addressed wedding invitations, but Christmas cards to me are a little less formal.
We do labels for cards, too. Granted, they're really cute candy cane stripe wrap-around labels, but they still get printed.
Just do it and don't feel guilty. Seriously. I have promptly thrown away the envelopes to the Christmas cards I've opened (the cards get hung up in our house) and I wouldn't think twice about it!
I was going to do a mail merge/print labels, but decided by the time I got my out of the house, bought labels, figured on the mail merge on my stupid Windows Vista piece-o-crap computer, and printed the labels, I should just hand write them. So I did, and mailed them today.
And I have to say - your card in your pic is ADORABLE! How on earth did you get your two kids looking in the same direction at the same time? I don't have that skill.. I'm way jealous!
I did a Christmas card with 3 pics - one cute one of DS, one cute one of DD, and an picture of the 4 of us (the kids aren't really looking at the camera, but whatever). I can't ever get a cute pic of the two of them. And if I do, it always looking like DD1 has DS2 in a headlock...
Answer: Blind luck. And yes, your last statement will be my future, I'm afraid, lol!