The "Friends As Family" Card

     Say, what do you think of this idea for a Christmas card?

       My  friend's daughter Abby, a graduate student living out of town, and her room mates came up with the idea of a photo of themselves,

...along with Clyde, Abby's beta,  the littlest memeber of their "friend-family",

...for what I'm christening this "friends as family" Christmas card.
       Isn't that a really nice new concept for a contemporary holiday card? 
       Of course maybe the "friends as family" card  is actually already out there being sent by friend-families everywhere during the holidays, but the above is the first one - nay, second one -  I've ever seen - my daughter and her husband years ago sent a "friends as family" Christmas card with a single friend they were temporarily apartment-sharing with - but in any case, is it not an idea whose time has come? 
     It occurred to me that Taylor, Abby, Valerie and Clyde's card, besides expressing in more eloquent words the old truism, "friends are family without the bull****",  was a in fact Christmas letter, though perhaps not of the conventional type;  because instead of chronicling the past year's milestones - which I, for one, do always enjoy reading about in the holiday letters of friends and family -  this letter just tells, in one picture and a few simple but beautifully-articulated words, about a family of friends who are doing well at this moment in their lives because they have each other. 
      And what more do any of us really need over the holidays but each other?