Christmas past...

that's me...

in the 60s...

Craig, DH and my dear father in law at my grandmother's home in 1993...

our last Christmas with her and my mom...

check out the bunny ears...

I don't have many photos from that time period without them...

boys...

and that's DH!

I had one of those old runner sleds, too!

I thought you could use a chuckle today...

hope you are getting the stuff done on your lists...

I am under the weather today...

up most of the night...

so just hanging out in my nightie today...

drinking hot tea with french vanilla creamer...

eating soup...

and napping a lot...

hopefully better tomorrow...

can't sleep...

so here are some vintage Christmas card images for you...

I love this snowman...

these images take me back to my childhood...

not only did I get to look at all of ours...

but when we stopped by grandma's...

I would look through hers, too...

mom taped ours up over the archway between the kitchen and living room...

but grandma put hers in a basket on the end table that held her Charlie Brown tree...

not only were they pretty...

but most of them had news in them...

hand written little notes about who had been sick, had surgery, got a new job...

if a baby had been born...

and of course...

the school pictures...

mom always stuck ours in there, with her little notes and mailed them across the country...

mom worked on her cards for weeks...

I can remember many a time finding her at the kitchen table, writing to someone far away...

my job...

licking stamps...

yuck...

there were always certain things that were on the table...

box of cards...

ink pen...

stationary...

stamps...

and a big glass of water...

I still send out Christmas cards...

with little notes about us...

its one thing that many people don't do anymore...

but as long as I can write...

I plan on doing it...

because keeping in touch the old fashioned way is still fun...

and its tradition!