A Year In Review

This Christmas, I think I am going to be reviving a tradition I started when I got married in 2003, but dropped in 2005. The tradition is this: On Christmas Day, you use a blank Christmas card (perhaps from the design you sent out that year) and essentially write out a summary what happened that year - both the good and the bad. You can make it as private or public as you want, you can do it as a couple, family or individual - whatever you want.

The idea behind it is to have a fun record of what happened in a particular year and you can save all of those cards through time and reminisce. When I started it, I decided that once I wrote out the card for a particular year, I would put it in my Christmas stocking and keep all of the accumulating letters in there. Then each year when I take out the Christmas decorations, I can pull out the letters and remember the past years and what I was up to.

After my horrible Christmas in 2004 when my marriage ended, I stopped that tradition because I no longer wanted to celebrate, remember or reminisce about these past few years. However, now that I am slowly finding joy, peace and happiness again, I think I'm ready to start up the letter tradition again. I'm looking forward to writing this year's letter on Christmas Day!