A Christmas Miracle

When you receive your card this year, and wonder why the picture isn't more holiday/festive/Christmassy, like all the awesome ones you see on Pinterest where everybody's flashing their cable knits and royal stewart and the snow falls all around, softly out of focus, in a winter wonderland punctuated only by steam rising decoratively off our fair trade hot soy chocolate milk . . . 

consider that it took about 35 minutes to get this for Grandma . . .

 . . . . after slogging through magical family moments such as: