Reluctant is an understatement for both Wayne and I when thinking about writing an annual "Christmas letter". But, this December, as we have begun receiving some from friends near and far, we've realized that we actually enjoy reading about their lives and those of their families over the past year. Many of these friends are far away and we rarely have the opportunity to visit with them in person and the annual update keeps us in tune with a few little pieces of their lives. So...in 2015 we have decided to embark on one of our own....NEVER thought this would happen!
To preface my reluctance, when I was in high school and college, my paternal grandmother would ask me each year to help her with her letter. It was very long and, in my young mind, very boring. It chronicled her travels, of which there were many, and her ailments of which there were more and more each year. It was generally self-centered, not mentioning any of the rest of the family or their activities. To put it mildly, I hated doing it, but calmly did anyway! Most of my young contemporaries didn't do update letters until much later in their lives. In fact we laughed about the ones we received from older folks that we knew.
Wayne has never considered doing one, since he has tasked himself over 40+ years with creating a photo card, generally, a collage of the family. However, now that the "family" has doubled in size, the photo collage has as well, and trying to caption everything to capture the essence of the past year is almost impossible. Therefore, we have decided to do a Christmas letter to go along with the collage, thus making it a bit more easy to identify who's who and doing what!
We hope that our reluctance will shift to willingness in years to come after we try 2015!! Note: We really do welcome any and all annual updates from all of our friends and family who choose to create them!! Bring them ON!! Love you all.
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