这家人7年前开始制作“真实生活”的圣诞贺卡

这家人7年前开始制作“真实生活”的圣诞贺卡，随着孩子们长大，他们变得越来越疯狂

Most families are trying hard to make the festive season picture-perfect, where everyone is happy, nobody talks politics, and the children don’t complain about their gifts. But the idyllic world is better left to Coca-Cola commercials, since the real-life festive season is often very different.

大多数家庭都努力使节日的气氛完美，每个人都很开心，没有人谈论政治，孩子们也不会抱怨他们的礼物。但田园世界最好留给可口可乐的广告，因为现实生活中的节日季节往往非常不同。

And one family from North Carolina is celebrating precisely the imperfection of family Christmas. For the past 7 years, the Stanleys have been making Christmas cards where every family member participates.

来自北卡罗来纳州的一个家庭正在庆祝家庭圣诞节的不完美之处。在过去的7年里，史坦利一家一直在制作每个家庭成员都会参与的圣诞贺卡。

The result is both cute and hilarious since the little ones are pictured wreaking havoc in the house and things get messy, and oh boy, it does feel out of control. But isn’t that the whole beauty of winter holidays?

结果既可爱又搞笑，因为照片上的小家伙们在房子里大肆破坏，事情变得一团糟，哦，天哪，这确实让人感觉失控了。但这不正是寒假的全部魅力吗?

“The very first time we tried to take a ‘traditional’ Christmas card photo we had hilariously bad results. From there the tradition was born—instead of trying to send perfect cards, we would send something that represented the chaos of parenting,” the Stanleys told Bored Panda previously. So let’s take a look at what the buzz is all about!

“我们第一次想要拍一张‘传统’圣诞贺卡的照片，结果糟糕得可笑。从那以后，这个传统就诞生了——与其寄完美的卡片，我们要寄一些代表父母养育混乱的东西，”斯坦利夫妇之前告诉Bored Panda网站。那么，让我们一起来看看这些嗡嗡声都是关于什么的吧!

The Stanley family from North Carolina has been capturing the essence of raising their kids in Christmas cards for the past 7 years

在过去的7年里，来自北卡罗来纳州的斯坦利一家一直在圣诞卡上捕捉养育孩子的精髓

Bored Panda reached out to the creative dad Jonathan Stanley who has been doing these real-life Christmas cards with his family every year since 2014. Jonathan previously told us that the idea came when the traditional photo didn’t go according to plan.

Bored Panda网站找到了富有创意的爸爸乔纳森·斯坦利，他从2014年起每年都和家人一起制作这些真实的圣诞贺卡。乔纳森之前告诉我们，当传统照片没有按照计划进行时，就产生了这个想法。

“We were new parents with a one-year-old and everything went wrong—baby cried the whole time, it was windy, the lighting kept changing, you name it. If 2 of us looked okay, the third one blinked. We laughed so hard at how bad the photos were that we decided just to send them out as is and our family loved it.”

“我们刚为人父母时，有一个一岁大的孩子，一切都搞砸了——婴儿一直在哭，刮风，灯光不停变化，你能想到的都有。如果我们中的两个人看起来没问题，第三个人就会眨眼睛。看到这些糟糕的照片，我们忍不住笑了，所以我们决定照原样邮寄这些照片，我们的家人很喜欢。”

Thus, the Stanleys’ annual Christmas cards turned into a cute family tradition that perfectly sums up how the year has been. Jonathan told us that the biggest change during the past years has been kids. “As they grow older, it opens up more possibilities of what we can shoot. After all, it’s a lot easier to get an 8-year-old to pose with a nail gun than a 2-year-old.”

因此，斯坦利夫妇每年的圣诞贺卡都变成了一个可爱的家庭传统，完美地总结了这一年的情况。乔纳森告诉我们，过去几年最大的变化是孩子们。“随着他们年龄的增长，我们可以拍摄更多的可能性。”毕竟，让一个8岁的孩子拿着射钉枪拍照比让一个2岁的孩子拍要容易得多。”

When it comes to inspiration for their annual shoot, the Stanleys look at their kids’ behavior throughout the year. “For example,” dad explained, “in 2019, they were very interested in flying the drone with me, so I simply built on that natural interest and imagined what they might do if we weren’t watching.”

当谈到他们的年度拍摄灵感时，斯坦利夫妇会关注他们孩子全年的行为。“例如，”爸爸解释说，“2019年，他们对和我一起驾驶无人机很感兴趣，所以我就基于他们的自然兴趣，想象如果我们不看他们会做什么。”

Most importantly, as the kids have grown older, they love the annual shoots even more now than when they were young. Dad believes it’s because they now “actually understand it and I can explain what we’re doing. My son got to present the cards to his kindergarten class this year, and he seemed very proud of them.”

最重要的是，随着孩子们逐渐长大，他们现在比年轻时更喜欢每年的拍摄。爸爸认为这是因为他们现在“真正理解了，我可以解释我们在做什么。”今年，我儿子把贺卡送给了他所在的幼儿园班级，他似乎感到非常自豪。”

And here is this year’s Christmas card

这是今年的圣诞卡

And as for the 2020 Christmas card, Jonathan said that his boys became interested in nailing boards together and using hammers. “So naturally a nail gun is very cool to them and provided inspiration for this year’s card.”

至于2020年的圣诞贺卡，乔纳森说他的孩子们对钉木板和使用锤子很感兴趣。“所以钉枪对他们来说很酷，为今年的贺卡提供了灵感。”

“Also, we can’t go to the rock climbing wall because of COVID, so they’ve started climbing the moulding/trim around the door frames instead. The pic of my son climbing on the far right… that’s 100% real. No Photoshop needed!”

“另外，因为COVID的原因，我们不能去攀岩墙，所以他们已经开始沿着门框攀爬。我儿子爬到最右边的那张照片，百分百真实。不需要Photoshop !”

图片来源：Jonathan

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