Once again with feeling, the Golden Family Christmas diorama!

Hey, kids! It’s that beloved holiday tradition where we just post a few recent Christmas-themed photos with some short yet sincere seasons’ greetings, and we give readers a break from my usual self-indulgent verbosity. It’s the most wonderful time of the MCC year! Click, scroll, ooh, ahh, and keep on frolicking down the internet superhighway!

What if Rankin-Bass Christmas characters were real and large enough to flatten us, but instead showed us love and especially mercy?

Obligatory Nativity scene, but with different textures.

Choose your Christmas IP lawn totem!

The first of four outtakes from our recent visit to the annual Festival of Trees at the Indiana Historical Society. First up: reindeer greeters in the lobby.

Christmas train embedded in an evergreen cliffside.

The Clauses defy convention up on the fourth floor.

Shriner bear!

A whiteboard at work, decorated by persons unknown.

If you’re doomscrolling while taking a break from your family and you’ve included us in your distractions, then welcome to this brief respite! We wish a Merry Christmas to you ‘n’ yours, High-Spirited Holidays, Vivacious Vacation, Divine December, and/or congratulations on reaching the light at the end of the 2025 tunnel despite the obstacles and heartbreaks. May your days be merrier and brighter, your celebrations invigorating, your downtime rewarding, and your internet circles calm and peaceful and filled with joyous content, even if it means using some of your free time to find brighter circles!

Fierce ugly Christmas sweater competition. Notice that fireplace on her sweater isn’t a drawing; that’s a diorama large enough for Barbie dolls to heat up marshmallows on a stick.