Every year there is some trepidation and some excitement when it comes to the production of our Christmas letter.  Even though I want to update friends and family about our year, I also am at the point in the year when I am feeling tired and not highly motivated for extra things.  I do use the Christmas letter as my journal entry into our family’s Christmas album to summarize our life for the 12 months.

This year I had gotten the Christmas picture printed and received and letter paper ordered, received, and printed (small miracle with minimal printer glitches).  Addresses were updated, labels printed, adhered to envelopes.  K & B had done an assembly line with me to get them done.  Then it came to sealing them and I could not find my sponge/water applicator….not surprisingly the small item got lost in our move.  And also not surprisingly when I went to T.H. to Shopko and the grocery store, I could not find the envelope moistener that I was looking for. 

I seriously considered dividing the 180 envelopes between the 6 people in the house and having each lick about 30.  But then the flashback of a Sienfeld episode where there were invitations licked, a paper-cut on a tongue, and death….and I decided not to risk it this year!  Then the epiphany happened in the Shopko aisle.  I was trying to use the already gummed envelopes to their max potential.  I could just pretend that they did not have glue on them and use a 50-cent glue stick to save our times, tasetebuds, and potentially our lives.  I thought I would share my lightbulb moment with you my readers and followers to help save your mailing moment from catastrophe.  (p.s. also fitting that 3M came to the rescue since it was founded right here in Two Harbors, MN)

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