Tis the season… for posing for awkward family holiday cards. If everyone in your family is engaged/married/pregnant besides you, it makes the tradition even more awkward. But single people are thinking of clever ways to stand out in a family photo full of couples.
A woman named Emily Seawright posted her family’s Christmas card to Twitter. The other family members are holding up signs that start with the letter ‘e’: excited, engaged, expecting. Emily is holding up a sign that simply reads ‘Emily.’
my family’s Christmas card this year lmao pic.twitter.com/A2L7wfsprN
— Emily Seawright (@cantseawright) November 26, 2017
The photo is brilliant, but it’s certainly not the first of its kind.
A year ago, a family photo went viral that showed people holding up signs that read “expecting, excited, engaged, egg salad.” The one single person in a family full of adult siblings who are coupled up became known as the “egg salad” of the family.
https://twitter.com/nugget154/status/935284444683997184
One of the siblings in the original “egg salad” photo commented on Emily’s photo. He didn’t seem mad that her family copied the idea.
looks like we should have trademarked the photo 😂
— Kaleb Noonan (@kbobby_22) November 27, 2017
But Emily’s family wasn’t the only one to reference the egg salad family photo. The single woman in this family went with an “Egg McMuffin” variation.
This was ours 😅 pic.twitter.com/vJHiueLaDd
— sam (@samanthaeythh) November 28, 2017
And others shared their own odd person out family photos, sans signs.
https://twitter.com/HansenKylee/status/935374194526838784
This is literally my life guys…. pic.twitter.com/UQoQxkrdxH
— Morgan J (@morgan_craddock) November 28, 2017
Emily’s Christmas card resonated with a lot of people.
https://twitter.com/hausmuva/status/935259602727460867
https://twitter.com/EvansPosts/status/935388200306184193
https://twitter.com/teenagernotes/status/935573960682549248
https://twitter.com/Espi_Seli/status/935357210720374784
If you’re the Emily of your family, embrace it while you can.
