{"id":7354,"date":"2011-11-30T08:41:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T13:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=7354"},"modified":"2011-11-30T08:41:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T13:41:24","slug":"in-a-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=7354","title":{"rendered":"In a panic!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’ve received TWO Christmas cards already.<\/p>\n

Yes, you read that correctly, two.<\/p>\n

I’m in a panic.\u00a0 I have no idea when, how, where, what to do about our Christmas card.\u00a0 Last year was a total fail.\u00a0 We even had a great family photo to use and I just didn’t do one.\u00a0 At all.\u00a0 I didn’t send a Christmas card.<\/p>\n

I haven’t NOT sent a card since Mel and I were married ten years ago!\u00a0 I did not send a Christmas card last year at all.\u00a0 It still makes me GASP!<\/p>\n

One of my most favorite things about this season is running to the mail box and finding cards and photos and hellos from friends from all chapters of my life, past and present.\u00a0 I see their families growing and changing and it leaves me feeling connected to them even if I haven’t spoken to them since college.\u00a0 I adore my Christmas cards.\u00a0 I even leave my mantle undecorated, and use my cards as garland.\u00a0 I string them onto twine and add to my garland as Christmas approaches and cards fill my mailbox daily.\u00a0 It’s wonderful!<\/p>\n

Last year, this would have been the photo on my card.\u00a0 You know, if I had gotten it together.\u00a0 It’s a photo from Liz and Robert’s wedding.<\/p>\n

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And we all remember what happens when I put Mel in charge of a Christmas card.<\/p>\n

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That was never printed or mailed.<\/p>\n

We actually had family photos taken back in September specifically for our Christmas card.\u00a0 They are amazing, only now we look entirely different.\u00a0 (Mel and I do anyway.) He’s lost about 30 lbs and I’ve lost hair.\u00a0 We just feel so differently and want to reflect our new selves in our Christmas card.\u00a0 Looking at those photos, we realize we were all in a very different place and time.\u00a0 I don’t know.\u00a0 We’re still thinking.<\/p>\n

One thing is for sure, I’ll never leave Mel in charge of a Christmas card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’ve received TWO Christmas cards already. Yes, you read that correctly, two. I’m in a panic.\u00a0 I have no idea when, how, where, what to do about our Christmas card.\u00a0 Last year was a total fail.\u00a0 We even had a great family photo to use and I just didn’t do one.\u00a0 At all.\u00a0 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7358,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354\/revisions\/7358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}