Christmas

  • Christmas 2025

    Christmas 2025

    To quote a birthday card I once bought my sister, “It’s that time of year again: Time to shave that llama.” While we might not have any llamas on hand, there’s still plenty to do. There’s putting up the Christmas tree, the lights, the ornaments. Then there’s finding the ornaments that Lucy took off and…

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  • Christmas 2022

    Christmas 2022

    Friends, Sometimes a year is too much for one Christmas letter to contain–so it is with this year, but I’ll give it a try. Susan found out she’s pregnant with baby #4! That’s probably the lead. We found out over the summer in between one of our many trips. Susan came up with the tummy

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  • Jólabókaflóð

    Jólabókaflóð

    For the past few years, my wife and I have participated in the Icelandic tradition of Jólabókaflóð, or Christmas Book Flood. I don’t know where I first came across this tradition, but the internet articles I read universally agreed that it involves gifting books to your loved ones on Christmas Eve so they can spend…

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