I love our Christmas traditions.
I love watching Rudolph, Frosty and A Charlie Brown Christmas. I love setting up our little Christmas village houses with the white lights that glow from inside. Oh, and furiously rushing to take a family photo for our holiday card every year... I love that too.
I especially love that each of these traditions existed between my husband David and I long before our two boys ever came along. We had no shame in skipping out on a night on the town because we wanted to be home on the couch in time to watch Heat Miser and Snow Miser duke it out and sing about how great they are in A Year Without a Santa Claus.
Our Christmas card tradition started waaaay back in 1999 when this happened.
My mom came over and snapped this goofy picture of us. with a real camera. With FILM. No previewing or deleting anything, we were stuck with this.
The next few years that followed we kept up on this new, yearly tradition. Mom or my best friend Laura would come over to the house and take an entire roll of nonsense pictures that made us giggle like fools.
The next year we hadn't quite found our groove yet, but those turtlenecks were amazing.
Ah. Here we go. This one happened because we were getting rid of a couch that we had moved to the side of our house for a moment. A perfect moment.
Folk singers, 2003. That jacket from Goodwill had matching pants; it pains me that you can't see them.
This one makes me happy because of David's face and the fact that Robin is newly pregnant.
When our first son was born some friends asked if we were going to continue on with the weird cards.
Ummmm, yes.
Look at that face. We call this one "Soup Baby." And I am wearing a dust bag that a purse goes in on my head.
It was nice to have a third person in our little scenarios.
Influenced by Goodfellas...
Oh hey look, now we have another kid! Oh, wait, we have lots of other kids!
Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Christmas.
Last year I really didn't think we were going to crank one out. A friend came over for dinner. We realized we had a giant cardboard box and some tinfoil, so...
One year we did send out a "normal" Christmas card. It was very cute, just the boys at a playground wearing superhero capes. No one was overly excited by this, except for grandma's and aunts who were still questioning that one where we're sitting on a couch, outside, back in 2002.
What are we doing for our picture this year? It's the second week of December and I have no clue. It will come to us, I'm guessing around the 20th.
Ah, tradition.
Lori's website, Drawn to the 80s, is where her son drew the greatest music hits of the 1980s. Her blog, Once Upon a Product, is where she writes about important things like beauty products and Mick Jagger.