available. when i say in the cards it s personal for me. holiday cards, my favorite part of the season, sending and receiving. i like seeing pictures of my friend s kids and charting their growth, seeing who ordered online and who went old school and used a local printer. i even like those goofy letter greetings where people give me a long rundown on everything from the summer trip to the jersey shore to the kid report cards. sometimes i have no idea who sent them to me but i still read them to the end. there are things we do annually in life that trigger a gut check and holiday cards are it for me. i think they make me stop and take stock of where we are, what we ve gained, what we ve lost or who we ve added to our lives or who sadly we ve lost. for as long as i can remember, we sent picture cards from my house. when our four kids were young, we took a photo of them on vacation in west virginia and used it as our card that year. then 20 or so years later we