Some notes on our Christmas card. The cow came from Kathy’s painting she finished in August. It now hangs in the dining room. The Christmas tree came from the trip Nicole and I took to Jamaica. I used it in a talk I recently gave to 300 middle schoolers at St. John Neumann. The talk was about hope and the Christmas tree on the street in the slums of Kingston was one of several signs of hope.

Claire and Danny both did a good job helping on the assembly line. Kathy recommends using photo corners instead of cutting slits in the card.

Note to self: Lighten up all photos sent to Sam’s Club. They come out darker than what shows on screen. Maybe send a test of several levels of brightness. Try something other than AppleWorks since it has a bug allowing only 1 copy to print at a time.