Now that Thanksgiving is over, we have begun that time of year when we hear from everyone we haven’t heard from since Christmas last year. Of course, many of them haven’t heard from us either. Some just send a card and others send thousand word letters in micro-sized type, as long as it fits on both sides of a piece of paper. Some people we look forward to hearing from because they have such interesting lives and others prefer not to write anything except “Merry Christmas,” and that’s okay too, . . . really.
Then there’s the get-a-card send-a-card group that will only send you a card if you send them one. But wait a minute, I think we do that in hopes that they will think they were on our list all the time and we were a little late sending them out this year. As long as they get them by December 24, it works, but when your card arrives the day after New Year's, it looks a little suspicious.
I remember my mother kept an address book for Christmas cards only. She would send out cards to those who sent her cards the year before, along with “favored” new people that she met during the year. If she didn’t get a card from a person two years in a row, they were scratched off her list never to get a card again.
Now, what about you? Are you a Christmas card letter writer or do you count on Hallmark to say the right thing? Are you excited to hear from distant friends once a year or do you groan as you cut open their envelopes stuffed with pictures and a journal for the past year? Maybe it’s time for a bigger mailbox.
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