Christmas Cards

One of my favorite parts of Christmas is reading the Christmas cards sent to my family.  I love looking at the pictures and seeing how our relatives and friends have changed over the year.  However, this year, I did not enjoy the Christmas cards as much as past years.  This year, I felt English once again creep into my life because as I read the cards, I could not just read them, I began to judge people for their errors in the cards.  Most of the people who sent these cards have college degrees, however, there were so many grammar and spelling mistakes.  My sister and I even started to have a competition where we would read the same card and compete to see who could find the most mistakes.  I know this seems bad, but I feel as if educated adults should know the difference between the meaning of it's and its or know better than to end sentences with prepositions.  Also, reading my grandma's (PoPo's) letters are painful.  It takes our entire family to decipher what she is trying to say. She literally forgets major sentence parts.  She will say something like "I went lunch with Donna yesterday. We go to nice restaurant. I hope see you soon."  And that's seriously not an exaggeration.  Granted English is not her first language, but after living in the States for most of her life, I would expect her to learn proper English. I feel as if it is a shame that she cannot write a letter with proper English.  I feel as if AP English has just made me hyper-aware of these things because I have never had these problems in the past.  One thing is for sure though- when I am older and send out Christmas cards, I will be sure to make no grammar or spelling mistakes in fear that there will be an AP English student reading my card.