By December 15th, I had only received one Christmas card in the mail.  Sure, you could guess that I only have one friend, or that I've been removed from friends' Christmas-card lists after publicly supporting Senator John McCain for President, but I knew (hoped?) that the real reason more cards had not arrived is because I've had four mailing addresses in five years. I'm so familiar with those yellow "Please notify sender of new address" stickers the post office places on envelopes before forwarding them that I don't recognize my mail without them.

Then my mom called and said that she got my sons' Boys' Life magazine in her mailbox, and I knew the situation was futile. We can try and we can hope, but so long as we are a military family, our mail will never fully catch up with us

I was getting a little sad about the lack of Christmas cards until December 18th when several arrived in my box. Apparently, after the 100 or so cards I sent out last week, people finally had my new address and sent me their greetings, too.