Comments on: Holiday Card

By: justbarely

justbarely — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:06:00 +0000

Ewwww… Uncle Jim? That’s totally gross. Like the skeevy relative with bad hair whom no one wants to hug. Why did we always have to make these people our relatives???

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:58:00 +0000

I remember one year we had our picture taken with Jim Trafficant for our christmas card. The caption read, “Uncle Jim and the girls.”…..Is he still in jail?!?!?!

By: justbarely

justbarely — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:45:00 +0000

Oh, we were made to wear matching outfits, as well. Ours usually involved some sort of seasonally themed appliqued sweatshirts. Unlike making them take a Holiday card photo, this is one tradition I’m definitely NOT inflicting upon my children.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:45:00 +0000

Too funny. We always had to take pictures in matching outfits, too. Why did everyone think this was such a good idea?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:55:00 +0000

Having only one barely older sister, our mom used to dress us up in matching outfits, then take pictures of us, as if we were twins. Luckily, that ended when my sister started receiving issues of Vogue when she was 5.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:29:00 +0000

Oh, you naughty children! Giving your mother the bird on our Christmas card photo. How about the year we superimposed Abby because she wasn’t home for the picture.

I can only hope that our little Mikey will give his father, Ebenizer Scrooge, just as much fun posing for pictures. xo mom

By: S. Pierson

S. Pierson — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:17:00 +0000

Ok I just peed my pants I was laughing so hard! Maybe this year I can pose with my urologic surgeon prior to my bladder sling operation…..! Another awesome just barely. Thanks for making my day.

By: kpalm

kpalm — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:29:00 +0000

Absolutely perfect. I love your perserverance I also can’t believe how much the girls have changed in one year! Wow…

By: justbarely

justbarely — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:37:00 +0000

Addendum: It’s in our blood.

In college I got the disease and sent out my own card from myself and Phil Donahue, whom I found in a crowd at a Notre Dame pep rally. Two years ago I got a card in the mail featuring my sister with her arm around Ralphy from A Christmas Story.

By: justbarely

justbarely — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:35:00 +0000

Christmas Card Picture memories from Amy's oldest brother:

Family photo with Ted Kennedy (taken before the children were aware that he had killed a woman via vehicular manslaughter)

Hannibal MO with Abe Lincoln impersonator (liked the impersonator, who seemed to enjoy Ben and my General Douglas MacArthur style corn cob pipes; however cut off jeans ala Tom Sawyer!? No thank you..)

Rock band photo in Florida. That was actually pretty fun.

Notre Dame Tunnel. A nice experience nearly ruined by posing for a family holiday photo instead of running around the stadium like all the other kids.

Monk Malloy. A nice, awkward picture with a nice, awkward man.

Williamsburg: This was a fun vacation-nothing says colonial Williamsburg like a family picture in 3 corner hats, flutes drums, and of course a couple of colonial era Cleveland Cavaliers t-shirts-hooray for the 1700's!