2009 was a hard year.
2009 was a good year.
We have no choice but to take the bad with the good, but we can choose what to remember.
I wonder what surprises 2010 will hold?
2009 was a hard year.
2009 was a good year.
We have no choice but to take the bad with the good, but we can choose what to remember.
I wonder what surprises 2010 will hold?
Earlier this month, Newt and I read The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. If you haven’t read it, please do so immediately.
When Newt got the part of an angel in our church pageant, I almost expected her to say “Hey! Unto you a child is born!” No such luck. I will admit that this was better, though.
Merry Christmas!
PS: I sewed that little white skirt for her over the summer. Thank goodness it still fit.
The last few years our family has made gifts for each other for Christmas. Here are a few of this year’s offerings.
Homemade snowglobes from Newt and I:
(And yes, I made the Wonder Woman one for myself. I couldn’t resist.)
Snow globe instructions here.
From me to Newt:
Nope, not Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets…
…just the chamber…
…and some secret treats to keep in it.
Hollow book instructions here.
And another Harry Potter theme gift:
I was inspired by the handmade spiral notebooks in Amanda Soule‘s Handmade Home. I bought a couple of used paperbacks and cut off the covers. Then I cut blank paper to fit and had them spiral bound at our local copy shop. So easy, but unique and fun.
Never one to procrastinate, W is in the garage right now working on his gifts to us.
I can’t wait until tomorrow!
Dear Family and Friends,
I did not want to write a Christmas letter this year. I felt like I was too busy shuttling my “unsocialized” homeschooler to Girl Scouts, swim lessons, homeschool co-op, History Girls’ Club, and Activity Day Girls. Just the other day, when the printer jammed again, and your addresses were trapped in its bowels, I told *W, “That’s it! No Christmas cards this year!”
I was very emphatic.
He didn’t seem to care.
However, everyday when I get the mail, I find more fun news about what all of you are up to. I decided I didn’t want to risk getting booted off your card list. So, I promised Newt a dollar to write our letter.
My instructions were simple:
1. Start with “Dear Family and Friends”
2. Tell something interesting about yourself, me, and Daddy.
Here is her letter:
Dear Family and Friends,
We, and by we I mean my mom and me, we have been baking treats today. And some of my mother’s and mine relatives have just been over here.
This year I have been to the zoo with my baby cousin and my cousin and my aunt and uncle. It was fun; I got some ice cream, too.
And I bought a wii with my own money that I saved up.
Some things about my mom are she mostly likes going on the computer or reading a book.
My dad is funny.
I have a dog named Shasta. She is lazy. She likes to lay on my bed all day.
The end. Now where’s my dollar?
Know, what people? I think I got ripped off.
I guess I forgot to tell her to wish you all a Merry Christmas and to share our love for the Savior, but perhaps that was implied?
Oh, well, if you want something done right…
From our family to yours, we hope you have a very Merry Christmas full of joy and the spirit of Christ whose birth we celebrate this time of year.
Please don’t kick us off your card list.
Love,
The Heidi Family
*Obviously, names have been changed to protect the paranoid.
Do I get bonus points for using the word “bowels” in my Christmas Letter?
What’s in your letter this year?
This photo was actually taken weeks ago as we made our pilgrimage out into the domesticated wilds of Oregon to hunt down our tree. I now sit in the glow of its soft light, too lazy content to stir and find my camera. Not to take a picture, but to upload the many, many photos of merry-making trapped on my card. Ah, well… tomorrow is another day.
P.S. To the anonymous gift giver that left a surprise on our doorstep Friday evening:
Thank you.
