Every year I make plans to write a Christmas newsletter. I look at festive letterhead. I think about a pretty font to use. I make a mental list of who to send the newsletter too. I get my cup of hot chocolate and laptop ready and sit down to start our first Christmas family newsletter.
And that's usually when someone walks into the room and hands me the mail.
Over the years we've received lots and lots of Christmas newsletters with wonderful news about weddings, babies, school graduations and the like. And those milestones in life are meant to be shared.
It's the other stuff that I'm talking about in Christmas newsletters. *whispering* thebraggingstuff
And I know me. I know that if I started a Christmas newsletter after reading what comes to our house every year, I would be very tempted to ssssttttrrrrrreeeettttcccchhhh the news from our house.
Hayden wouldn't have a part in the senior play, he'd have the lead.
Taryn wouldn't be volunteering at the nursing home, she'd running the home.
Kaitlin wouldn't be playing a solo at church, she'd be conducting.
Stuff like that.
So that's not what this Christmas newsletter is about. It's what happens around our house during the holidays.
Things like what our family does to prepare for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's. How we celebrate, where we go to look at Christmas lights, how many times I'll hear the following..."who drank all the eggnog?" "he gave you that for Christmas?" "I can't believe they didn't send you a Christmas card!"
Precious, tender, heart-warming moments...hope you'll come back!
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