Every year I find myself putting off taking my kids’ picture for my holiday photo cards. I don’t know what it is – they are good kids yet once you dress them up and put them in front of the Christmas tree or where ever, something seems to take possession of them. My normally well-behaved twins will suddenly find it necessary to nudge one another, or look angelic until the very moment I am ready to take the picture only to find they suddenly stuck out their tongues.
This year we had the added aggravation (I mean pleasure) of adding our kitten to the family photo card taking fun. Who would get to hold the cat? Who got to feed him a treat? Who just got scratched by the cat? Where did the cat go? He is hiding under the tree. Who will get him out? Oh, we are having fun now.
Yet in the end after only 50 attempts, we finally snapped what is to be our 2008 Christmas photo card. It actually came out quite cute, though we ended up with one without the cat in the Santa hat. Oh well. Next year we will try the antlers for sure.
He’ll just love that.
I can’t wait to upload it and figure out which digital photo card design will suit it best. Then after I mail them all out I sit back and wait as I’ll inevitably receive a few compliments on my “little angels.” Oh, if they only knew!
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I can relate! I had annual pictures taken when my kids were little, where my elderly neighbor was Santa. He’d known me all my life. At age 2, my son pulled his beard off. At age 3, my daughter got Santa-phobia. I finally sat on his lap to get her to. Me & kids with Santa was our Christmas photo card. To him it was so funny, each year he’d ask if I wanted to sit on his lap too. His last year as Santa I did, took a photo without the kids. It wasn’t our card photo, but he passed away soon after, so I cherish it. To us, he was Santa. Memories I wouldn’t have if the annual photo experience was easy, I guess…