Changing
Christmas Card Lists
Everyone keeps a
Christmas Card List. I pack the cards I receive every year with the Christmas
decorations so I know who to send them to the following year.
Family forms the basis
of this list. As the family grows and names change via marriage, you find
yourself scrambling to get all the new addresses. I think I’ve got all but one
of those family members this year.
As the years go by you
add people you meet or subtract those people you’ve lost track of or can’t
find. Often the last card you sent comes back to you so that you no longer have
an address for that person.
This year I note that I
am sending cards to 13 different states from Alaska, Washington State and
Oregon to Pennsylvania and Illinois to all along the East Coast from Florida to
Maine. The complete list also includes Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Arizona, New Hampshire, and Georgia.
I have kept track of and
sent a card along with news to one friend for over 50 years. We met in Church
Camp when I was 14 or so. I’ve seen her kids grow up; the arrival of her
grandchildren; the death of her husband; and pictures of her summer home in
Florida. We’ve met now and again over those years and I consider her to be a
true friend.
I also get a kick out of
some of the addresses I send these cards to. You can almost tell what area of
the country it is by the non-state part of the address. Here are some of the
more interesting ones: Winters Trail; Schooner Dr.; Dog Point; Cranberry
Island; Juniper’s Way; Beech Hill; Box Turtle Lane; Maple Drive; Ash Point Dr.;
Buttonwood Dr.; Hummingbird Rd.; Crooked River Ranch; Deerfield Beach; Port
Road. I love it when I have a street name from nature like many of these are.
My own family and some
of my friends have had to really struggle to keep up with the many addresses
I’ve had over the years, God bless them. They always manage to find me somehow.
Of course now that we have the internet and Facebook, keeping in touch has
become much easier.
I sent my cards out
yesterday. Have you sent yours yet? Better get on it.
Merry Christmas to
everyone and thanks for listening.
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