
My family never sent out holiday cards when I was a kid. When we wanted to keep in touch with someone, we just kept in touch with them, directly, without posing for a photograph and writing a generic paragraph about how “it’s been an interesting year for us all blah blah blah.” So, admittedly, when it comes to this sort of thing, I’m not exactly an expert.
With that in mind, I ask you, beloved reader: Taking a picture of your family lined up with the sort of armaments usually reserved for an elite special operations units ... is that, uh, normal?