Traditions can conjure feelings of connectedness, honor, a deep sense of value among other things. These abstract concepts were greatly appreciated by myself as I spent time with my kids printing pictures that I had carved on a linoleum block from drawings that they came up with specifically for the project. I have been printing my own Christmas cards for 10 years and this was the first with my children. They were fully engaged and thoroughly enjoying the whole printing process and the results of their work. It was a lot of work, being in three places at once, but the joy was quite satisfactory. I was full of it.