Is it wrong that I am jealous of my family and friends’ Christmas photo cards? Let me rephrase that, I am not actually jealous of the Christmas cards themselves but of the many happy images they represent. Maybe it isn’t necessarily wrong but it sure makes me sound bitter and that just isn’t the case. I chose to rent an apartment that doesn’t allow pets and chose to focus on enjoying my 20s and waiting to settle down and start a family. I don’t have any regrets but in turn, I don’t have any cute images to include on photo holiday cards when Christmas rolls around. I know people send photo cards of themselves or with their significant other but without an adorable pet or child, the photos just look creepy and weird.
If it were up to my husband, our Christmas photo cards would feature a picture of his most prized possession - his snowmobile.
I have visions of a bull dog named Tallulah with fake reindeer ears adorning my future Christmas cards, but my fiancé is allergic and thinks bull dogs are ugly. Why am I marrying him again? Oh yes, that darn falling in love thing made me overlook this very unlikeable quality he possesses. Children are in our future but not in our present. We have decided, quite practically, to wait and start our family once we have a little nest egg and a couple years of married life under our belts before a mini-us enters into the picture.
I guess our future adorable Christmas photo cards are going to have to wait a few years. We will continue to send out jolly, happy messages including snowmen, snowflakes, trees with snow, cabins with snow-covered roofs, or snow covered streams (did I mention my fiancé is really into snow sports?), and I will just have to push those little pings of jealousy aside when opening up all those adorable photo cards. To my future husband, the snowmobiles are not our babies and we are not naming any future pet IQ or Turbo.