X is for X-mas (and other holidays)

There once was a family who posed
Each year in their holiday clothes
Christmas, Easter, and such
It was never too much
[can you finish my limerick for me?]

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My family faithfully took posed family pictures. We suffered through them as kids.

Then those group photos morphed into pictures of birthdays, graduations, weddings, anniversaries, and family reunions.

I know X-mas was a stretch for this A-to-Z Challenge. I’m not sure exactly when many of those photos were taken, but here’s a posed family picture that was clearly Christmas:

My mother painted this picture of our family on plywood and it stood outside our house in Fort Devens at Christmas time. I marvel that she did that.