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lauraanne_gilmanIn an earlier post, I seem to have hit someone's hot-button by the unintended implication that I don't think Christmas cards should be sent.
Not true. I think that, if you enjoy sending out Christmas cards, you should so so. You might want to remember that not everyone you're sending them to celebrates Christmas, but at the risk of arousing the ire of the "War on Christmas" folk, that's why they have cards that say "Happy Holidays" or -- my personal preference-- "Happy New Year!
My own personal feeling on the entire subject, since it was raised, is that cards are fun to get, but I don't think they're essential to the season. And I'm not a fan, myself, of sending cards to everyone I've ever met, because It's A Holiday.
I do like getting photos of families I may not have seen in a while, to note how big the kids are getting (and they do go up on the fridge for a month or two, yes). I like getting breezy, chatty year-end roundups of your life [so long as it doesn't become a list of oneupmanship WeDids, which are dreary and unbecoming].
I don't consider a mass mailing of a card to be an obligation to anything. I am[you are] not obligated to display the card, to add you[me] in turn to my[your] correspondence lists, or to turn around and write you[me] a note in reply [except for cases where a thank-you note is appropriate, for whatever reason]. And if you, out of the blue, send me a card, and I'm thriled to hear from you, and communications are reopened, then that's a wonderful thing. But it could happen any day of any month of the entire year.
I made the donation in the name of my LJ readers because I appreciate all y'all, and because I wanted to do something good, and allow you to share in that. End of story.
In other more important news, it is raining instead of snowing, damn it, the cats are sleeping in a peaceful lump, and I have been tasked to make scones. Yum. Sould I make raisin scones, or maple scones? Decisions, decisions....
Not true. I think that, if you enjoy sending out Christmas cards, you should so so. You might want to remember that not everyone you're sending them to celebrates Christmas, but at the risk of arousing the ire of the "War on Christmas" folk, that's why they have cards that say "Happy Holidays" or -- my personal preference-- "Happy New Year!
My own personal feeling on the entire subject, since it was raised, is that cards are fun to get, but I don't think they're essential to the season. And I'm not a fan, myself, of sending cards to everyone I've ever met, because It's A Holiday.
I do like getting photos of families I may not have seen in a while, to note how big the kids are getting (and they do go up on the fridge for a month or two, yes). I like getting breezy, chatty year-end roundups of your life [so long as it doesn't become a list of oneupmanship WeDids, which are dreary and unbecoming].
I don't consider a mass mailing of a card to be an obligation to anything. I am[you are] not obligated to display the card, to add you[me] in turn to my[your] correspondence lists, or to turn around and write you[me] a note in reply [except for cases where a thank-you note is appropriate, for whatever reason]. And if you, out of the blue, send me a card, and I'm thriled to hear from you, and communications are reopened, then that's a wonderful thing. But it could happen any day of any month of the entire year.
I made the donation in the name of my LJ readers because I appreciate all y'all, and because I wanted to do something good, and allow you to share in that. End of story.
In other more important news, it is raining instead of snowing, damn it, the cats are sleeping in a peaceful lump, and I have been tasked to make scones. Yum. Sould I make raisin scones, or maple scones? Decisions, decisions....
