Last week, I posted a bunch of holiday cards with family photos gone wrong. So many people commented with their own amazing/horrible holiday outtakes, I had to do a second post just for them.

Turns out there are 38 more things that can go wrong when you try to submit your family to a picture perfect enough to make it to your holiday card.

What are these family holiday photo problems?

1) When your baby looks like he stole Christmas:

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2) When your baby wishes he had siblings instead of pets:

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3) When your baby acts like her siblings have a gun pointed in her back:

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4) When your toddler is really interested in the blinking red light:

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5) When Big Sis isn’t on board with the elf outfit:

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7) When your daughter refuses to sit between Gramps and Grammy:

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8) When you’re too busy making out to notice your kids monkeying around in the foreground:

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9) When your “tangled in lights” idea isn’t nearly as cute as you imagined:

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10) When a deer’s ass photobombs an otherwise usable shot:

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11) When your daughter seems to have picked up the nose pinch you give yourself when you’re stressed:

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12) When your baby doesn’t like your homemade Christmas fashions:

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13) When you tried and failed to copy a really clever photo you saw on Pinterest:

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14) When your baby is afraid of heights:

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15) When your older daughter is SO OVER her litter sister:

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16) When your husband is a blinker:

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17) When your kids don’t understand the concept of a “framer”:

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18) When nobody will take their fingers out of their mouths:

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19) When your son’s smile crosses the line from cute to psychopath:

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20) When your husband is about to send everyone to a Time Out:

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21) Your your son won’t stop pinching your daughter’s nose:

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22) When your husband just wants to get back to the Giants game:

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23) When you tell your oldest to put his arms around his little brother and he looks like he is about to strangle him:

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24) When you realize you are raising a comedian:

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25) When nobody understands the meaning of “Joy”:

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26) When you look like you keep the bodies in the basement:

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27) When you have a teenager:

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28) When you have a cat:

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29) When your son shoves his sisters for no reason:

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30) When your youngest is embarrassed to be part of the family:

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31) When you tell your youngest to get his hands out of his brothers’ crotches and then he sticks his finger up his nose (and eats it):

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32) When your daughter becomes the Christmas Cannibal:

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33) When your son won’t stop acting like a monkey:

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34) When your son has never been so bored in his life:

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35) When your baby suspects his sister wears a toupee:

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36) When nobody believes in Santa:

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37) When everybody just gives up:

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38) When you realize your life looks like a horror movie:

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Just like last year, I will make a plea to all families everywhere— use your outtakes as your holiday card photos. The world would be a much better place if everyone admitted their family isn’t perfect on Christmas.

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