Over the years Jenna has had many photos taken with Santa. This one taken in 2010 is my absolute favorite and I don’t even know who took it.
We had been living in West Valley for
only a week and were still not familiar with most of the ward members. I did not have my camera and someone waiting
in line to take pictures of her own children offered to take some pictures from
her phone and said she would send them to me.
It is rare that anybody from my past
has taken pictures for me promising to send them and 20 years later I am still
waiting knowing fully well that they will never be sent. But this sister – who was only
visiting our ward and not a member of it - took three shots of Jenna and she
did send them to me. For that I will
always be grateful.
Roland asked me to send it to him so
he could use it for the upcoming Christmas card.
He recreated this Norman Rockwell using family photos – though not everybody was able to make the card. The one brother not in the photo complained about leaving him out.
I told Roland that he would but have
come to think of it as symbolic as Tony and Rochelle are always running
late. They could have easily missed the
photographer taking the picture – or maybe
they were the one’s taking it. I had told Roland to
put masks on all of our faces. He
obviously didn’t take my suggestion. Maybe if he
had Tony might not have complained.
I think Roland’s sending out cards is helpful to some of those on the receiving end – especially this year.
