There is one thing I absolutely love about December. Santas made of garland hanging in strip mall parking lots? The nonstop Christmas music on KOSI 101? People buying gifts they can’t afford? It’s the only time of year that the biggest contradiction in terms, “Divinity”, makes its way onto gift platters? Ham? The Holiday Pottery Barn catalogs to make me feel inferior? Going into JCPenney’s and spotting red sweaters with embroidered reindeer on them and thinking, “Who wears that?” and then going to your church Christmas party to find out? Nope. None of that. For me it is writing The Family Christmas Letter. I’m particular about the way I do my letters – I try to be witty and self deprecating with small doses of reality and large doses of not going on too much about my kids. And I will freely admit that I have certain friends on my list whose cards I look forward to the most. I remember one year when one of these friends had encountered a small crisis that prevented them from sending their regular booklet of hilarity, and all we got was a card with their names signed inside. My husband and I looked at each other like, “There had BETTER be a good reason for this.” It’s a very emotional time for us.
Last Saturday Cory attended the BYU vs. AIR FORCE game in Colorado Springs where he was able to meet up with an old college buddy of ours. “How is he?” I asked when he came home. “He’s good. He said they can’t wait to get our Christmas card, they look forward to it every year.”
It’s a nice sentiment, but here’s the thing. Blogging is ruining my Christmas letter. Funny quotes, humorous stories, noteworthy events, they have all been talked about already. It’s one of the reasons my sister is resentful. She sent out an email recently that basically said, “Just because all of you have blogs now does not give you the right to stop talking to me in email.” She hasn’t graduated to the blog world, and resents the rest of us for assuming she knows what’s going on because “we blogged about it.” I totally see her point, which complicates my dilemma.
So do I, a) write a letter that repeats details I have already blogged about, making it redundant for those who already read my blogs b) write a basic, boring letter since all the good stuff has already been written about c) get over myself already, nobody cares or d) hurry up and attend some kind of bad concert downtown or take my kids to a Prop 8 rally to gather new material by Christmas?
It’s a quandary.
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