I’ve decided…this is the photo that is going out with my Christmas letter. [Yes, Christmas letter – I’m so late getting it out that a card would only be up for two days anyway and if the people I’m sending them to are anything like my parents, the card and letter may be thrown away but the picture will be on the fridge for the entire year. Not worth the expense of buying and sending a card. I promise, I will stock up on cards after Christmas, and I will send out cards with my letter next year.]
I wrote our Christmas letter this weekend, and then I had an interesting realization. The letter is basically going to people we don’t see hardly all year so it really is news to them what we do and where we live. In other words, it isn’t written for immediate family who know all that stuff already. With that said, the only people we send such a thing to are my family and friends. As for Steve’s family, either we see them during the year or we wouldn’t recognize them if we saw them on the street (and we don’t hear from them at Christmas time either). Steve has no desire for me to send them a Christmas letter, so I’m not going to bother.
Yes, it’s of my dad and the boys, but everyone getting it knows my dad, and I think the picture is interesting enough that it will draw people’s attention just as a picture. Such fun!
Ah, the great ideas one has in the shower! I must take showers more often…
P.S. Coming soon…the pages for my 2008 calendar.