I love getting Christmas cards. We excitedly check the mailbox each day, and then tape up all the cards on a door in the kitchen. We look at them as we walk past all through December – and then comes January. What can be done with all of these beautiful cards, many of which show pictures of our friends and family?
So a few years ago we started putting all of these special cards into a basket. (You could also hole-punch them and put them on a ring.) We store the basket on our kitchen table, and then each day at breakfast we take turns choosing one card from the basket. We pray for the family on the card, and then we put that card in the back of the basket. We continue working our way through the basket throughout the year, praying for everyone who has sent us a Christmas card.
At the end of the year, we go back through the basket one more time, all at one sitting, and choose some cards to keep for sentimental reasons and others to save for art projects.
What do you do with your Christmas cards?
I used to hole punch them and put a label with the year on them and we’d save them with all our holiday decorations; putting them out each year and looking through them. Then for some reason I got out of that habit and I can’t even find any of our old cards. I really wish I had kept that going though as it would be so neat to look back and see the progression of everyone’s families.
Oh, what a fun idea! That would be neat to do, too!
Thanks for stopping by.
~ Amy