You may have noticed (or not) that we didn't send Christmas cards this year. My excuse is that I just had a baby which, I'm finding, is a great excuse for a lot of things.
"Oh, you need volunteers for the blood drive? Sorry, I just had a baby."
"I'm not going to be able to wait in this long food line. Can I cut to the front? See, I just had a baby."
"You like my stretchy pants? I won't be wearing real clothes for a while, because I just had a baby."
"Honey, I'm going to nap while you wrangle the monkeys we call our offspring. I'm soooooo tired since I just had a baby."
Also, I was thinking today as I arranged for display the Christmas cards I have received (and this is with NO ill-will or finger-pointing to those who have sent them, just an observation as one who has sent and will continue to send such cards), "When did it become a tradition to send pictures of yourself to your friends and family for Christmas? Like this is your gift to them? Photos of you?"
In other words, "Oh, did you want a Christmas card from the Johnsons this year? So you could treasure a photo of me weighing more than I have in over a decade? Sorry, not going to happen. You see, I just had a baby."
7 comments:
how I love you and your wit.
you crack me up! Also you look great I saw you less than 5 days ago and you do :)
That was a good one. I laughed out loud!
P.S. I never send Christmas cards, and I have no good excuse.
hahaha.
I didn't send cards out this year either and my excuse is that I just flat out didn't want to. Love you Brit!
Milk the baby excuse for as long as you can because gosh darn it, it's TRUE. It really is hard to do anything with a new baby!
so I'm writing this like a month after you posted. Guess I missed it. And all i have to say is you should post more often. I could totally hear you saying all that stuff and I was laughing. And I have been using that excuse or the, "I can't, I'm pregnant." excuse, or the "I can't I have six kids" excuse for a long time. And all of the sudden I don't feel like I can justify any of them anymore....so milk it baby! And I would also like to know who came up with the cards with pictures thing cause I'm kind of getting tired of it. Is it gonna go out with 8 tracks? cassette tapes? vhs? dvds?
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