Christmas 2013
Yeah, yeah, Christmas is already over, but NOT ON THIS BLOG IT’S NOT. I’ve been going through holiday submissions, and let me just say, the Lord hath given this most festive season. My stocking/inbox overflowed with cheery greetings with subjects like ‘Christmas Eve limerick with vomit pic’ and ‘Merry Christmas?’ (You know that something’s amiss when holiday greetings come with question marks.) For the next several days, I’ll be posting these submissions in all of their Glory. Each post is a belated Christmas gift from me… to you. I hope you will enjoy them with a tall glass of bourbon and possibly an oversized nitrous tank.
In the meantime, I had to keep tradition alive by posting the two “holiday sonogram” submissions I received this year. For those of you who don’t know, expecting parents often use the Christmas holiday as an opportunity to bedazzle their little bundles of cells joy, either by decorating ultrasound pictures for Facebook or by turning their baby’s grainy visage into a memorable ornament. Sometimes people even turn their pee sticks into ornaments. How festive is that?!?! (SUPER FESTIVE.) And who could forget little Squeaker, who made his/her introduction in 2012? When parents turn their “works of art” into actual worksof art, my heart just sings.
For some reason the first thing I thought when I saw this was, “Well, they DO only have five weeks to go,” as if being under the two-month mark makes sonogram ornaments less creepy or more appropriate. Haha, nope. Not that I think that all sonograms are creepy, especially to expecting parents, but if I was at a friend’s tree-trimming party several years from now and pulled this dusty bad boy (or girl) out of the decorations box, I might let out a small yelp and/or drop my eggnog. Somehow I’m guessing the manufacturers didn’t have this particular photo in mind when they made the frame, but hey, the more the merrier, right? Besides, I couldn’t expect everyone to put a picture of Mariah Carey in that frame just because that’s what I would do. We are each our own special snowflake, and our decorations should reflect as much.
Stay tuned for several Christmas-themed posts and round-ups, and I hope everyone’s been having a great holiday so far!
Related: ChristmasBellies and Season’sGreetings
(submitted by Anonymous)