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Merry Christmas from the Bonn family! After sprinting from store to store earlier this week to start and finish my Christmas shopping (and having my credit card frozen twice for suspect activity – once at the liquor store), I am breathing easier. I went to make our Christmas card and didn’t have a single family picture ALL year. Wow. We spent time together but don’t have any documentation. Our friend was gracious enough to snap a few photos but Snapfish just isn’t moving fast enough. So the greetings here…family photo later.

One thing I have noticed this year that while I have received cards I have only 1 letter. With Facebook, Twitter, Snap Chat and the dozen other mediums that I don’t know about (but my son probably does), do we not having anything left to say or do we know everything anyway? I am working on being more adaptable and I guess fewer words is the trend. Instead of a regular letter, everyone will get their own 140-character tweet summing up their year.

Audrey, aka Tall Tree, fourth grade.  Kind, compassionate and DRAMATIC when it comes to fashion. Geez. Strumming her little hippie soul out on guitar and running track.  Perfect Duck one day.

Mason, sixth grade, middle school, ACK. Tweens=awkward. Energetic, fun and curious. Every discussion feels like an Aesop’s fable with a moral lesson. Soccer, basketball, track and GOLF.

Michael, designing passive housing project in Hillsboro – teaching me passive doesn’t mean building itself. Wood-working, sabbatical this summer. New furniture in my future?

Me, nurse in Newberg. Switched before I killed someone dozing on my long commute. Day shift in January! Coffee, sleep-deprived, jogger (loper, really), sometimes writer. Feeling blessed.

I can’t even effectively tweet. I couldn’t get anyone’s year into 140 characters. Oh well. May you be surrounded by love, peace and grace this holiday season.