| I have always wanted to write the captions inside of Christmas cards. I don't like all that sticky sentiment that oozes out of greeting cards. Cards should give the kinds of greetings that we normally give each other. When you give a card filled with pictures of scenery you don't see everyday and crap you don't normally say, you're being as artificial as our Christmas tree... yes, we settled for dragging the fake one out again. Anyway, the cards you see below are part of greeting card line that I've named "Real Life Sentiments." Nothing fakey here...just real life pictures and real life greetings. |
O'er the potholes and through the repair shop, then off to the chiropractor we go... Grandmother will have to wait. |
Wishes for just a regular old Christmas |
I don't know what to get you for Christmas... I'm stumped. |
We'll have to wish you a Merry Christmas across the miles... the RV broke down again. |
Hope Santa leaves you something really nice. |
The best things in life really are free. |
We just came by to drop off a gift and to say "Merry Christmas." |
| Here is a serious, real life sentiment to my kids, maybe you can identify. Dear kids, If you lived in the United States about 100 years ago, your life would be so different. Daisy is 6, and she would already be working in a factory about 10 hours a day. Jonah, you are 11 and you would work for 12 hours. Linda Jo, you are 14, you would most likely work 14 hour days. Your dad and I would also work these long hours, and all for very little pay. We would be stuck inside of a dark factory, working at a machine, and the doors would probably be locked so we wouldn't steal whatever we were creating. The breaks would be short, and there wouldn't be any laziness or you'd be fired. We would work 6 days a week and would live in a tenement, share one room, and probably not have enough to eat. You would work because there wouldn't be any other choice. The few cents a day you could earn would help buy our food. I could explain more, about how Linda Jo, at 14, would already be hunched over like an old woman because of such a hard life. I could tell you why kids were wanted, because they had small hands that could reach into the machinery and loosen anything that was caught...sometimes with hazardous results. Factory bosses wouldn't care about you. If you lost a finger, you were fired. We would walk to work, we would get sick often because of the unsanitary conditions we would be in. Your life would revolve around work. You wouldn't go to school. You would stand for hours a day, bent over a machine. Your life would be so different. I just want you to understand how most kids in the United States lived about 100 years ago. Maybe then you can understand what a very good life you have now. Please don't get upset when I ask you to clean your room. Don't roll your eyes when I tell you to load the dishwasher. Don't complain when I ask you to put one of your many toys away. Tell me what you want for Christmas, but understand that the real gift is to be alive. You get to go outside and play and be a kid...don't stay hunched over the Nintendo for hours. That's not real life, that's just a machine. Mom Email me Sign the Guestbook Back to the Home Page at www.redbluffismytown.com |