December 18, 2020
Reflection: Small gestures are tokens of thought and symbols of love.
Today, I'm grateful for: Christmas cards
Challenge: Consider sending a couple Christmas cards to those you love most. Doesn't need to be anything fancy! It's the thought that counts!
Do you send Christmas cards? I'm a sucker for a post-mailed card or note. There's something about the effort of getting a card, stuffing an envelope, addressing it, stamping it and sending up a prayer that it makes it through the many steps to land safely in your hands in your home that feels so....magical. For me, Christmas cards, or any cards for that matter, are a symbol of thought. They send a message beyond what they state. Those handwritten thoughts always feel so special and heartfelt. For me, it says "I care about you. You mean enough to me that I am willing to go to these lengths to make you feel loved." And when I get a card like that....I DO feel loved.
Christmas season is extra special because we get all kinds of cards from friends and family in all walks of life. We get an annual snapshot into their life or their year. And it offers an opportunity to reminisce the special memories that made you close enough to make it on 'the Christmas card list' in the first place.
Every year, I collect our Christmas cards on a ribbon, and hang it along our stairway banister. The ribbons of cards remains perched there into the New Year until somewhere between January 1st and the "Ok Sarah, it's time to take down all the winter decor"-comment from my husband, I'll pack away my strand until next year. I always leave the cards on the ribbon when I pack them away. It's so fun the following year to pick through them when I drag out all my Christmas decor and see how much has changed.
Maybe it's corny. Maybe it's old-fashioned. But for me, Christmas cards are a fun way to love on those around you during the holidays.
Here's a peek at our card this year ft. my husband's overly aggressive mid-pandemic goatee....(for the record, the goatee is now gone, but it lives on forever in our official 2020 family Christmas card, and I will never let him forget it....)
XO
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