Personally, I鈥檓 currently behind on getting my Christmas cards ready, and I don鈥檛 even attempt a Christmas letter, as I鈥檓 an avid social media user, and so I think a letter would just be redundant.
However, I love getting Christmas letters from my friends and family, and enjoy reading them over a cup of hot tea. I always enjoy a bit of creativity and appreciate the work that goes into the letters sent our way.
I recently saw a date suggestion to the effect of creating evidence of an adventure that you鈥檝e never been on, and I thought that it could possibly translate well into a fun holiday family letter.
So here is your mission, should you choose to accept it鈥� creating a family letter with stories and evidence of things that did not actually happen in your year.
I think kids of any age would have a blast coming up with things that they may have loved doing, or are just downright obscure and ridiculous. Perhaps on a road trip your family took a back road and ended up lost and squatting a tree fort for a few days?
Or perhaps with the help of Photoshop, you went zip lining through the Everglades and lost a shoe to an alligator?
Your evidence might look like altered photographs, digital trickery, fake ticket stubs or imagined journal entries. Really, the sky鈥檚 the limit to the types of adventures your family could have had this year, and there will be much bonding over aligning your stories, brainstorming convincing details and accumulating your proof.
Obviously I鈥檓 not condoning lying to all your family and friends. There should likely be some fine print at the bottom of your letter with a disclaimer that the letter may include 鈥渞eal or imagined events.鈥�
Have a blast describing the two-headed penguin you saw at the zoo and how your youngest won a trip to Disney in a gum wrapper. Go completely zany or walk the line between truth or fiction; it鈥檚 up to you. You could even play a little two truths and a lie and let your readers guess.
