Every December our piano top ends up covered in holiday greeting cards. You can clearly identify which of our friends have children by the type of card they send. Our childless friends send the cards you buy in bulk at Hallmark with pictures of snowmen or Christmas trees and our friends with children send photo cards.
For the past 3 or 4 years as more and more of our friends had children the ratio of bulk cards to photo cards has been moving in favor of the photo cards. The card-type rule seemed so consistent that my husband and I often joked that we should buck the trend and send out a photo card of us posing stiffly with a stuffed doll in front of a fake fireplace backdrop. But after attempting to conceive for 2 years and struggling through 2 miscarriages the idea wasn't really that funny anymore. In fact, I started to dread seeing all of those happy family photos pile up on the piano thinking that I'd never have one of my own.
So this year, now officially photo-card qualified, I was determined to send out a photo card with a picture of the whole family -- me, my husband, Baby M and the dog. I was adamant that the photo include all of us. I always think it is a little odd when a holiday card only shows the kids, no matter how cute they are. I put it in the same category of people who use a picture of their child as their profile photo on Facebook. I feel like telling these people, "I know the kid is the fruit of your loins and all, but you are actually separate people." Anyway, a good photo of all of us was harder to obtain than I anticipated-- babies and dogs are generally not very cooperative and that, coupled with the fact that neither my husband nor myself is particularly photogenic meant I still had no acceptable photo on Christmas Eve. Luckily my brother-in-law snapped some great pictures of us all that evening. I sent the photo off to Shutterfly and I am now cheerfully addressing "Happy New Year" cards to friends and family. Better late than never, and "Merry Christmas" cards are so 2007 anyway.
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