Who loves Christmas more than me??

Except for the obsessive gift giving, crappy office Secret Santas, mass text message saying "merry christmas" and endless lines at Toys R Us, it is a great time of the year.
One of the things I particularly like are personalized Photo Christmas cards especially when they have pictures of babies, toddlers or small children on them. It's a very cute tradition and with how busy we all are it is often time the only way to see how much the kids of friends and family have grown.
What I don't particularly like is when parents don't realize enough is enough and you get a card with a picture of a couple of teenagers in em.. My rule is that when the kid's voice changes or the girl starts wearing a training bra they have outgrown the christmas card. Just the other day I saw one of these cards with two kids who were easily 16 and 14 and they both looked like they wanted to die.
At some point parents have to come to the realization that this tradition goes from cute to weird. When your daughter is wearing a mini-skirt and your son is in full Marilyn Manson eye-makeup it is no longer cute it's creepy.

Often time it is so obvious they kids know they look like a bunch of tools who realize they will be teased mercilessly when their friends get this card in the mail.. They look like they are being held in some hostage picture, you almost half expect to find hidden messages like "please cooperate, they are pulling our eyes open and making us listen to an endless loop of Bing Crosby sings Hannukah favorites.

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