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I can’t believe it! Christmas is less than two months away and I am already making my list and checking it twice. Santa Claus likes it when we are peaceful and do unto others, so I am doing my part by ordering my holiday cards early from Shutterfly!

Every year, I ponder a multitude of card choices and this year, it’s not been any different. We have never done a Christmas photo card, as most of the ones that we receive are well, kinda hokey. I have also sworn solemnly to my husband that I wouldn’t do a Christmas letter. He tried to get it put into our nuptials! Cheese, or being anti-cheese is also on the list. So, I have promised no matching turtlenecks, no Jingle-Bell sock and certainly no sequined sweaters. (I hear you, breathing a sigh of relief out there with this proclamation.)

So, I took to the interwebs on my hunt for majesty, glory and taste, with a huge heaping dose of cute and fun thrown in for good measure.

We are the most content as a family when we are at the beach. So, these beachy themed cards from Shutterfly might be the perfect ones for us to pick as our choice. Being able to customize the card with our family name, as well as it being sustainably harvested is a win in my book.

The next card on my list would be the Paper Ornaments Christmas Card. I love it. When I think of Christmas it’s very red, green, bold and retro. It’s a Leave it to Beaver meets Little House in the Big Woods, with a healthy dose of Clark W. Griswold thrown in for good measure. Love it!! This card? Definitely shows what Clark wanted his Christmas to be. We all know what he got. Thankfully, I am not trying to wear down the town power supply with my house decorated with more lights than an airport runway.

Finally, I had to consider business Christmas Cards. Since Heidi Klum won’t return my phone calls, I have to make do. That would be the decision not to frighten people during the holiday season and pick a card that is simple, let’s you know “tis the season” and has a modern, hip feel. So, for my business Christmas cards, it would be the Modern Merry Wreath Business Holiday Card.

Wow. My cards are all blue! That’s ok. I am a traditional green, gold and red gal, much to the dismay of my family. So, I am guessing my selections might be my subconscious being infiltrated by boys, asking me to change it up during the holidays. Umm, that’s not happening. 🙂

Now, for a surprise. If you want 50 free!!! Shutterfly cards of your own, blog about it! Just follow this link and give them a write up. Tell them Clever Girls Collective sent you and they will get back to you faster than Santa whips up and down the chimneys delivering gifts on Christmas Eve!

This post is part of a series sponsored by Shutterfly. I was selected for this sponsorship by the Clever Girls Collective, which endorses Blog With Integrity, as I do.

I don’t have a lot to say this morning. Which on any normal day would make people stare at me like I have two heads. Today is just not a day for talking or writing. Instead, I am going to spend my day reading notes and recapping events of the last four days at the Type-A Mom Conference in Asheville, NC. My weekend was an amazing time spent with 350 fantastic women, all different, yet all with one common goal. To be the best bloggers we can be.

While I could sit here and give you a full recap, what I really need to do is have some downtime. Napping would have fantastic. However, I will be typing up my notes, sending a lot of emails, getting media kits ready to mail out and working on my calendar. Also, to give a full recap wouldn’t be fair when I haven’t had time to process it all.

So for now, I am home working and pondering the best way to give you the experience that was Type-A Mom 2010. In the words of the Grateful Dead, “What a long strange trip it’s been.”