a spoof letter is truly the only gratifying way to counter the BS-filled ones that one receives. i would have LOVED your’s!
my husband’s BIL sends a multipage one in teeny tiny font. he has one child and he has the nerve to email me last week to ask for what’s happening with our family to include in his. i said, you will hear about our news when you receive our letter, i am not writing your’s for you!
BS or not, i prefer letters, as i don’t see a point to just a card with a signature in it. if it’s a photo card, ok, you can get away with just a card.
Good response to your hubby’s BIL! The letters that really get me are the ones that recount the year’s events month by month including every visit the writer made to somebody’s great aunt and every ailment they had treated.
The sad thing this year is one I received from an old HS friend from California (retired pilot) who was always able to take his family on exotic trips. Last year’s letter included some horrid pictures of his once-beautiful wife, also a HS classmate of ours. I said, “Lyn never approved this letter. She would never approve these pictures.”
This year’s letter from that couple was just 6 small pictures — mostly of local landmarks with no discernable people included. The notation just said something like, “Due to Lyn’s memory problems, we have kept our travels close to home and to places that she remembers well.”
Having lived away from California for at least 40 years, my old friend’s choices of “exotic” travel seemed wonderfully exotic to me — San Juan Capsitrano, etc. The letter spoke volumes without being maudlin.