My regular readers know that each year I create my own Christmas card based on a painting which I have done. I always have them printed, written and addressed, and ready to send the day after Thanksgiving. This year I had the painting completed and the cards printed by the middle of summer. I even had the address labels and return address labels printed and ready to go.
I am now making out my cards; I am more than half way done.
Because the mail is so slow in Mexico, I usually hand-deliver the card for Alejandro and his family when I am there in November. (One year when I sent them a card through the mail the day after Thanksgiving, it arrived in time for Easter!) Of course this year I am not down there to give him the card, so I sent one to the family on October 26th. I thought that maybe, just maybe, they will receive it shortly after Christmas. On Thursday, November 12th, Alejandro told me that they had received the card... just two weeks after I had sent it. However I had also sent a card to his 10 year old nephew... to the same address, and mailed on the day. That one has yet to arrive.
(The painting for the card is always a secret until the cards have been sent and received. In December I will post a picture of it.)
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