On each side of our family, there is a holiday dessert tradition. For Christmas, my Grandmother bakes the secret family cookie recipe, and the aunts each take turns bringing the pretzel jello. Grandma only makes the cookies once a year, and the pretzel jello had a brief hiatus from about 1991 to 1996, during a period of time my sister had ongoing health issues, and therefore did not want to see jello ever again. On my husband’s side, everyone decides somehow to bring a dessert, and then we end up with a person to dessert ratio of 2 to 1, but at least 1 to 1. (A “dessert” constitutes an ENTIRE pie, cake, or entire packaged of profiteroles.) It always happens accidentally.
The first Thanksgiving that we spent at our new home, we were not able to spend the holiday with our family. All of my family, and my husband’s extended family lived in two different states and we couldn’t afford a trip having had a major relocation. We sent a photo of our holiday table to friends and family, and they did the same to sort of share the day with eachother. We talked about what we ate over the phone and who came, and were all sort of bummed out at what we missed. The grass is always greener.
This gave me an idea! Instead of the typical Photo Christmas Cards this year with my husband, myself, and the dogs, the theme is going to be “Ha Ha, Guess what you’re not eating!”
I would take a photo of our table with my famous giant chocolate pudding cake on it for the card and say “Merry Christmas. Wish You Were Here. Darn, look what you missed!” I would put a piece with a big bite out of it where my brother would usually sit to show that I already took a bite out of his slice. Maybe, I would use the types of cards which required multiple photos, so I could walk around the cake and show it from different angles.
Oh, this is perfect. Doodlebugsdezigns.com has cards where you can get the back printed up also like this:
Of course, instead of someone’s kids that we don’t know, I could write up a little narrative on the back of the card. It is not really as mean as you think. He can take it! It probably would inspire a quick missive from a few recipients who would send a card with a photo of an empty tin with just crumbs, as they ate all of Grandma’s cookies.
Of course, I would first send a card proclaiming Glory to the Newborn King. That of course, would be my first priority, but being a sister, I have a secondary duty in this world to be a pain in the butt in a grand, and well calculated way. Having received the initial card, he won’t suspect a second.
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