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Show rfflmmtmrnrmtmr- 1 Ll by Marcella Walker Well, here we are again! Just a short time before Christmas Christ-mas and we still have a lot of shopping to do. I really don't mind shopping, it's just finding find-ing the time to get out and do it. At this time of year there is so much going on that it is hard to squeeze all the shopping in. This year we have a granddaughter grand-daughter getting married shortly after the holidays and there is some planning for that to squeeze in, too. The Christmas cards have been sent which is kind of a big job because I am the one who volunteered to head up the family fam-ily newsletter that has to go out each Christmas time. My cousins cous-ins send' me letters and I type them up and put them in the cards I send out. Of course, 1 put my own family letter in and I am more talkative than many of my cousins and so mine is usually longer than the rest. However, I have one cousin who gives me a good run when it comes to length of letters. I try not to edit them any more than I have to. I usually edit mine more than anyone else. This is just to keep the cost of stamps down. I don't want to put two stamps on any one card letter with the cost of stamps being be-ing what they are. I don't have any other cousins cous-ins in the state of Utah. I do have two brothers but they don't send me anything to put in the letter so I write down their stuff with mine and let it go at that. However, I do have some cousins who have a lot of news to tell and the editing of the letter let-ter becomes a job. Using smaller small-er fonts helps, too. When I see my cousins in person, which is rare, they are a'ways telling me that they are g'ad I get it done every year. I'm glad I get it done every year, too. l am actually surprised that I get it done every year. Quite a few years ago, I started a family newsletter newslet-ter sending it out every three months. At first everyone was pretty good at sending me stuff to put in it. Over the years it has dwindled down to the point where we are lucky to have the one come out at Christmas time. Some of my cousins I actually actu-ally see once in a while. We go to Oregon to see some because my one living aunt lives there. She is my dad's sister. The rest of my cousins live in Missouri or California. We usually see some of them in Missouri as we travel to see our daughter in Wisconsin once each year. . The ones in California, we hardly ever see. Christmas is family time. It would be nice to see my cousins cous-ins at Christmas time but that is impossible as some don't like to travel. Some actually refuse to leave Missouri for anything. Many of them are younger than I am but traveling is not their thing. Myself, on the other hand, 1 love to travel and we do quite a lot of it. Thank heavens for a good husband who likes to travel, too. If you are still writing your Christmas letters, you better hurry up because time is passing pass-ing very quickly. 1 only made it by a hair! |
