{"id":3127,"date":"2011-08-29T13:43:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T17:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:27:23","slug":"holiday-cards-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/personalized-christmas-cards\/holiday-cards-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"My Holiday Cards Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a child growing up in the 70\u2019s I always associated the exchange of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/christmas-cards\/collection\/\"><strong>holiday cards<\/strong><\/a> with Christmas. I can remember the excitement of Christmas preparation and with that the picking and choosing of our family\u2019s holiday card. My Mom would look forward to the holiday for weeks in advance. Carefully choosing our family card, my Mother would then meticulously develop the card list, and beautifully personalize everything with all of our names, even the family dog.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is indeed better to give than to receive, we all excitedly anticipated receiving our cards in the mail. It was a race to see who got the first look at the incoming cards. Some personalized holiday cards were signed with just names, while others had paragraphs of stories. Friends we talked to every day and cousins we hadn\u2019t seen for years. All incoming cards were displayed for all to see hanging from the archway into our living room. Every year we counted them all to see how many we received. When family and friends would visit during the season you could see them looking for their card on display.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I am all grown up with children of my own, I continue the tradition started by my mother. Every year we choose our family holiday card and mail it to family and friends. 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