oh my bestyears, I can't believe how calm your (very attractive) children look next to the maniacal looking cat. I'm afraid of being scratched just looking at that picture. Thank you to everyone for sharing your cards, there are so many wonderful photos of kids & animals. I probably mentioned this before but my sister received a photo card from her friends, just the adults and not the kids or pets. They wrote something clever about how everybody has cute kids and pets but how are the adults holding up? It was funny and pretty bold, since after a certain age many of us aren't willing to share photos of greying, aging selves with old high school friends.

Wish I had a picture of this but I don't so I will try to explain it. Take a long piece of wide velvet ribbon (3 or 4 inches wide). Attach it to the wall near the ceiling or at whatever height you like. Fold the ribbon over a couple of times and use two or three tiny finish nails to attach it at the top. As your cards start arriving begin at the top and staple each card to the ribbon. Looks very festive and it's easy to read the cards. ~Betsy

I want to say thank you too. I have never in my life seen so much mail in my little po box. What a joy to open it and see all the familiar names of my friends smiling back at me. I am going to buy some ribbon tomorrow and hand them on my back door. I will take a picture when I get done. I still have cards going out tomorrow. I also ran out of stamps and it snowed here in South Carolina on Friday. So the whole town shut down! Well, not really, but it was a mess and I did not have the right car to be driving in the ice and snow. Hugs to ALL of you. Trish

No. I used to enjoy sending Christmas cards. But, I don't send them anymore. A few years ago, I picked out some beautiful cards with winter scenes, silver glitter, and animals (e.g. deer). I picked them out because I thought they were really pretty. I thought they were the prettiest cards I'd ever seen. They wished people Happy Holidays inside, as part of the greeting. I forget what else they said, but I thought it was really nice and it certainly wasn't a statement on my part about religion or anything like that. My in-laws (and one other family) were pretty nasty about it, telling me they didn't want any card that wished people Happy Holidays and my in-laws said that it'd better say Merry Christmas if I sent them a card in the future. I was incredibly upset by how they acted and I decided I wouldn't ever send them a card again. Then, I started wondering if other people were offended by my cards because they might not say the right thing. So, I just decided to stop sending cards altogether. :(