Eric- my brother-in-law- Thank you very much for helping with the camera purchasing. Carried the ball from one end zone to the other! Thanks again.

Richelle, Sara, Mom and Erin (my cousin)

Essie- Sara's Second to Oldest (Picture of Caleb is still pending)

Abby- Sara's Oldest

Jack's still a little too high strung- even as far as dogs go.

New Camera- More Expensive Than My Car

Christmas Letters

Trying to simultaneously work through a Christmas letter and not grit my teeth at the same time. Breathe. I cracked out a paragraph that did jokey like Christmas letters do but it was way too cynical of a jokey. Mostly because of the fact that I really don’t want to write a Christmas letter. It seemed funny to me, but I couldn’t get the voices out of my head of all the people that would be reading it and thinking,

“This really doesn’t belong in a Christmas letter.”

So I pulled back and deleted everything I wrote and then I realized that the letter may be a lot harder than I first imagined it would be. Now I’m stuck. The runway is iced over and the plane is gonna’ be grounded for a little while. And the not gritting my teeth is also not really working out.

This is really stressful.