Christmas Cards Made of Gold???

I thought they must have been when I did the math and realized that including postage, I had spent close to $75 on my Christmas Cards this year. I am blessed to be part of a rather large family. Every year it never ceases to amaze me when I look at the latest excel spreadsheet address list and see 77 lines. There was a point in time when I would be especially crafy and make all of my christmas cards myself. Now that I have Bella, trying to manage card making plus taking the right photo and getting all of the prints made became WAY overwhelming. So now I am of the camp that sends the photo card, it is so much easier to create and order them. I am unsure why it took this Christmas for me to realize the expense of it all but perhaps it is a couple of reasons: 1. I am currently unemployed and am cautious of every dollar I spend. 2. Lately, I equate every sum of money I spend to how many headbands it took me to make that money. 3. I noticed that I have not received many Christmas cards yet. Maybe the lack of Christmas cards is a matter of people just not getting around to it, which I can relate to since mine have not been sent yet. Or maybe it has something to do with the economy. I can tell you I would have rather spent that $75 on more gifts for Bella on Christmas. But that is being selfish, I know that every year my family and friends looks forward to the Christmas Card picture of Bella and I guess I can't really put a price tag on that. So if by any chance you are not of the 77 lucky people to receive a Christmas card from me, below is the prize winning Bella 2008 Christmas Card shot. If only everyone on the address list read my blog...it could have saves me a few bucks!!!

And by the way...you had to know it would be Phillies related! :-)