Posted on 12/23/2008 5:37:03 PM PST by Lizavetta
The most WONderful Christmas letter I ever received (where every WONderful member of the family was engaged in WONderful activites) was followed the next year by a simple Christmas postcard: picture of mom, kids, no husband. That was her way of announcing the divorce.
Wow, that’s grim.
Hubby has three wonderful aunts who we do send a letter to; along w/school pictures, etc. I always laugh when I get the 'this is how wonderful we are letters' each season...
Mrs. Griswald (PaMom)
Funny, because it’s true. I got a Christmas letter from relatives that say they are now “totally green!”. They both bought hybrids this year. They don’t mention their 3000sq/ft house that’s lite up like a Christmas tree all year long.
Oh yea, she’s a school teacher.
We got ours. The father is, of course, the most accomplished attorney in the universe. The mother, despite the real estate market, has sold billions. The two sons are the smartest kids in college, ever. They do all this while traveling the word.
I get a kick out of getting them. I just sit back and wait for the other shoe to drop.
You'd not believe what nonsense these people write about and in such a smug elitist tone. A few of the ones he read this year included people falling all over themselves in regard to Obama and how stupid Sarah Palin is.
” Little Johnie is still working hard at screenwriting and won't let 30 years of rejection letters deter him, sally sue is very busy saving the world with her life partner Bonnie Butch, we vacationed in ( insert hyper hip location here ), blah, blah, blah.
I sit there in a stupor listening to Howie read these letters - they are truly unreal. One would think they were the creation of a gifted satirist yet, one and all are real.
Pretty sad.
Wow......that is funny!
I have a relative who usually picks one of her kids to dump on in the Chritmas letter....she has learned NOT to send them to her own children. This year one of them got a divorce and there was a paragraph about the offending ex-SIL and his various sins. He is one bad boy. She makes no pretense of the perfect family...ya gotta love it.
Well, I have to say I really enjoy these letters, whether bragging or not.
I just kind of ignore the bragging and focus on the happy side of life everyone is showing. I like to find out what all these (sort of former) friends and distant relatives are up to.
My husband, on the other hand, just hates them and doesn’t read them.
I do send a short one but I try to keep it funny and non-bragging.
I guess I am in a minority, I really enjoy getting updates from friends and family, especially those who are far away. Oh, Bill joined boy scouts, Tim broke his arm, Joe decided to enter the Navy? I think it’s interesting.
But all the negativity about these letters has actually made me start writing them. I am afraid the recipients make fun of us or something.
There should be a filter for these things. Seven or more status markers and the Christmas card gets automatically shredded.
A few years ago, my wife toyed with the idea of sending this type of family newsletter to friends as a Christmas greeting.
Since I usually do all of the writing for her, she asked me to compose the newsletter. I wrote one similar to the second letter.
IIRC, my 14 year-old was in rehab and our baby was taken away by the state; I was getting back into the meth business and the wife was offering herself over the internet for shots of tequila.
She got the idea.
We're talking about bragging, boasting, and showing off.
Can't you see the difference?
The front says:
Recently the History Channel asked a hand picked team of biblical scholars and archeologist from around the world to replicate as closely as possible the scene in Bethlehem all those many years ago. Based on all aavailable oral and written history, combined with certain recent findings in a nearby archeological dig, the team came up with the following depiction.
Please enjoy
Inside is a photograph he took while doing his daily run in Lafayette LA. I can't post it, but it is truly a cheesy scene of the manger, with cheap statues of the principle characters, surrounded with a string of lights made up of alternating heads of a snowman and Santa Claus on one foot poles surrounding the scene.
On the back of the card, it says in small print
Concept, Copy, and photography by (my son's name)
Layout and design by (His friends's name)
Yard Art by Drunken Redneck in Louisiana.
________________Well---I thought it was funny anyway--y'all might not!
My husband does our Christmas cards and we got a record crop in the mail this year. He writes a personal note on each card, but I did finally get him to put the addresses on the computer so he doesn’t have to hand write them all. When you write the personal notes, you would not believe how many write one back to you.
I was especially touched this year when our neighbor whose husband had a heart attack wrote a thank you to my husband for mowing their lawn last summer. Little things like that mean more to me than a computer generated letter bragging about the kids.
I really like getting pictures....two this year showed their sons in military attire....I will remember to pray for them during the year and keep their pictures handy.
Howie Carr’s annual Christmas card reading, from today’s show:
http://audio.wrko.com/m/audio/21708797/howies_annual_christmas_card_reading.htm
My husband and I played with that idea once, of writing something sarcastic and hilarious, but we never did.
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