--- title: Parents Win the Holidays With These Chaotic Christmas Cards description: Hijinks abound in these viral Christmas cards that parents have been making every year to capture the chaos of raising kids. canonical: https://time.com/5751325/holiday-card-viral/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-12-17T16:30:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:09.310Z og:title: Parents Have Officially Won the Holidays With These Chaotic Christmas Cards That Got Better Each Year og:description: Hijinks abound og:url: https://time.com/5751325/holiday-card-viral/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Parents Have Officially Won the Holidays With These Chaotic Christmas Cards That Got Better Each Year twitter:description: Hijinks abound twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Parents Have Officially Won the Holidays With These Chaotic Christmas Cards That Got Better Each Year  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Dec 17, 2019 4:30 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Dec 17, 2019 4:30 PM UTC In the movies, [Christmastime](https://time.com/5736523/history-of-christmas-trees/) is often depicted as the most magical time of the year to spend with children. But in real life, kids can sometimes be a handful during the [holiday season](https://time.com/5747205/holiday-spirit-christmas-mom/). Luckily, this mom and dad are here to share in your holiday parenting woes with Christmas cards that say it all. Spanning from 2014-2019, the now [viral](https://time.com/5750686/dog-christmas-photoshoot/) cards, which have been upvoted over 54,000 times on Reddit, hilariously documents all the holiday hijinks their now three kids have gotten up to over the years. While the situations, ranging from the two older kids climbing onto the roof to hang a sign for Santa to the baby flying away on a drone, depicted on the cards are clearly posed, the message behind them rings true. “For 6 years I’ve tried to capture the essence of raising kids in our Christmas cards,” Reddit user @kakalacky\_guy, who seems to be the kids’ dad, captioned the post. “Here is this year’s card.” Don’t worry parents, you’re not alone. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5751325/holiday-card-viral/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5751325/holiday-card-viral/"},"headline":"Parents Have Officially Won the Holidays With These Chaotic Christmas Cards That Got Better Each Year","datePublished":"2019-12-17T16:30:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:09.310Z","description":"Hijinks abound","url":"https://time.com/5751325/holiday-card-viral/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","onetime","holidays 2019","clickmonsters"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5751325/holiday-card-viral/","name":"Parents Have Officially Won the Holidays With These Chaotic Christmas Cards That Got Better Each Year"}}]}] ```