What do you all think bout Christmas letters? Yea or nay?
Christmas Letters
What do you all think bout Christmas letters? Yea or nay?
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From most of my experineces with 'Christmas letters', I see them as a sanitized version of a family's experiences over the past year. The irony is that the authors only fool themselves. The family grapevine has usually brought the true version long before the Christmas letter arrives.
ReplyDeleteBut there are exceptions. I have a freind who actually rights great letters. He has the ability to address the 'messy-life' parts with a great sense of humor, and in a way we can identify. I can't identify with the perfect family.
LOL Ken.. most of my Christmas letters were absolutely sanitized :)
ReplyDeleteI've read some great letters that contained the messier parts of the family's life. For people who do not live nearby, I like to get letters. For family I see all the time, naaah.
ReplyDeleteI like them if they are short and hit the highlights. I don't like the ones where people brag about how great their kids are and go into great detail outlining their multitudes of achievements and awards when I'm glad my kid is getting C's and staying out of jail :)
ReplyDeleteDon't do them. Will never do them. My wife does though.
ReplyDeleteThe way I look at it, for people I really care about, I already know what's going on in your life. If you have to update me once a year, just don't bother.
Mine are short and irreverent; I make fun of Christmas letters in my Christmas letters!
ReplyDeleteNever written one and don't intend to.I can't believe the number of normally quiet, modest polite people I know who suddenly go into ballistic braggadocio when they send their Christmas letters.
ReplyDeleteI refuse to compete. I also have no intention of embarrassing my kids or giving a catalogue of our routine lives (not that our lives are very routine -- perhaps that's the real issue!) And if I wrote the sort of "fun" letter making a joke of the whole thing, my husband would be very nervous and some of our more conservative friends would be unpleasantly confused.