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| Our newsletter will look nothing like this! |
Years
ago my wife and I would pull together a holiday newsletter recapping the
previous year which was always well received by family and friends especially those
that we hadn’t seen in a while. This was in lieu of a card and was usually
mailed sometime between Hanukkah and Christmas each year. The last time that we
pulled one of these together was in December of 2012… it has been some time
since we took part in this tradition and we are determined this year to once
again send out a family newsletter albeit a little later than in the past.
When
we decided that we were going to restart this tradition the question that we
had to answer was whether we would return to the format that we used before or
would we take the opportunity to pack in three years of updates into a single,
long, mailer. There certainly wasn’t a shortage of content from the previous
twelve months and most people to whom we would be sending the newsletter read
this blog on a regular basis. However, even given those two things we decided
to go ahead and offer quick updates in a variety of categories encompassing the
past three years but focusing primarily on this past year.
We
had actually planned on getting this out last month but time has not been kind
to us over the past several weeks which has left this project on the back
burner. To be honest, this is primarily my fault as much of the content I will
be pulling from and condensing from this blog. My wife has already created the
template and written the sections that would simply be inappropriate for me to
write so now the onus is completely on me. Thankfully, we have both been able
to update our address books so that part is taken care of as well.
I
know that many of you are looking at this as yet another project on the inexhaustible
list of items but this is an important part of our own tradition and what we want
to have marking each year as a family. Plus, for me it is the summary that
everyone seems to ask for understandably not wanting to sift through the
hundreds of posts from the previous year. This is our opportunity to look back
on, reflect, and report to those we care about what life has been like for us
the previous year. And, down the road, in addition to being a simple addition to the family history files, it will be a great reminder for us all
of the things that we both enjoyed and survived in 2015.
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