First Annual Christmas Letter, coming up!

I am stalling right now. I need to start and finish my first ever Christmas letter. Aggh! I get all worked up about these things because I think somewhere inside me, I'm secretly a perfectionist. I want all the words to be just the right words, I want it to be witty but meaningful, I want it to make sense (sometimes I can be long-winded!) and I want it to tell the story of 2005. I don't want people to see a letter coming out of the envelople and say or think, "oh no, another letter about stuff I could care less about" or something to that effect.

I don't know what the big deal is about Christmas letters. I love getting them! I love reading about people's lives (see first blog!) and getting updates on what's happening. But I hear that there are some out there who dread these things...they hate getting them and there are some who don't even read them! Hmph! I think those people ruin it for the rest of us, because I know somewhere out there, there are lotsa people like me who love getting the scoop, love knowing what God is doing and further, they know how to pray for the authors of those letters once they read what's up.

Still stalling here. I've thought about making mine appear like the front page of a newspaper, complete with headlines and volume numbers, etc. Just to be fun, just to be different. But to do that, you have to be creative and most times I can't get to the creative side of me until it's too late.

I guess I'll just start to write and see what comes out. Let's see how long it takes me...