Boring is Good!

Every year I send out Christmas cards.  For several years I did a family newsletter as we have several friends who live quite a distance and it was the best way to update them on our lives.  Each year it was fun to see the changes of the boys and what they had been doing for the previous year.  Each year Wayne and I pretty much stayed the same, with the exception of growing older and getting a few more gray hairs.  Well, this would have been a good year to write a Christmas letter and I negelected to do so.  We had a lot of challenges and growing experiences this year, and personally, I'm hoping to go back to the same old newsletter of before. 

If you're a follower of our blog, you know that this year we:  Had an appendititus with a week long hospital stay, change of employment after 22 years with the same company, had a car stolen from the school parking lot - during school lunch, have new transportation, put a new roof on our home, had another earn his Eagle rank in Scouting, and a few other issues that have helped us to realize what is truly important in our lives.  Through all of this we were reminded that we have wonderful family and friends who love and support us.  It truly has been a year of growth for  us, and to be quite honest one that we are only too happy to say goodbye to. 

So, I guess all those  years I thought our letter was a bit mundane and perhaps boring, I'm so hoping that next year's letter goes back to just that.  Boring is good, I will remember that and not wish for things to write in my Christmas letters again.