If your fly is open MAYBE

My inlaws were down here yesterday and they brought our Christmas card with them instead of mailing it. They have a Christmas letter and a couple pages of photographs from their travels and visits throughout the year. They used one of the pictures of us from our trip to Wisconsin over the summer. I have trouble walking, I have scoliosis in my back so I walk weird, very awkwardly. At any rate, one of the pictures shows us walking towards the camera. I look hideous. When I saw the picture, I sucked in my breath really loud. And my mother in law KNEW, she KNEW exactly why I was upset because she SAID, "What, you don't like the picture of you?" If they KNEW, if they KNEW it made me look horrible, WHY DID THEY USE IT? If they KNEW it would humiliate me????? Is this some kind of joke!!!! Holy crap, my father in law is a CEO of a computer company in Albuquerque, he's a millionaire, he knows tons of people they send those Christmas letters to. Even former President Bush. I just can't fathom how they can get away with sending a horrible picture of me that makes me look like a freak to people I don't even know!!!!!! And to act like it's no big deal!!! HOW would they like it if I took a picture of them when they looked like crap, like I put for the title of this thing, if their fly was open? And I sent THEIR picture to all kinds of people who didn't even know them. I'm really hurt. I know it's illogical but when I get stared at I just wish I was never even born at all. My husband, of course, is sticking up for his parents and saying I didn't look that bad. My FOOT!!!!

After we had breakfast today, they took another picture of us outside Village Inn (like they always do), but this time my husband had my youngest son stand in front of me so I look normal. Is it too much to ask to make sure everyone looks good (and normal)? Was it THAT HARD??? I realize having a freak in the picture makes everyone else look terrific though.

Today's song on Steve's 25 Days of Christmas Music is Italian Jingle Bells.