The Christmas Card project went like clockwork this year, although the clock showed 2 a.m. as I dropped off the cards at the post office. Everyone chimed in during ideation about what the card theme should be and how it should look. Even Nicole got in on the action thanks to her holiday visit from Armenia.

We left one item off the time line… Danny coached the boys St. John Neumann softball team to a victorious season. His mom and Claire both traded off as assistant coaches. It’s funny to hear young boys at church call him “coach.”

Notes on the card:
• The card originally started out as Santa’s Facebook page. Not sure when we switched to Baby Jesus.
• The scriptural quote is the same used in Linus’s soliloquy from A Charlie Brown Christmas.
• Linus’s post is 44 years ago because A Charlie Brown Christmas came out in 1965.
• The Joseph image is from a painting of Jesus, Joseph and Mary in the workshop.
• The Mary image is from the Mexican Lady of Guadalupe icon.
• Kelly and Claire came up with the idea of having the gifts, which is based on a Facebook feature.
• Christmas Story #1 is about us cutting down Christmas trees and Kathy laughing so hard.
• Bob helped identify the artist behind the Mary and Baby Jesus painting. Liz Lemon Swindle’s Be It Unto Me.
• The number who “like this” is based on the estimated number of Christians in the world, 2.1 billion.
• The “like this” icon was used on the mailing address label, next to the addressee.