The kids and I worked on a photo montage yesterday reflecting on the events of 2007. This is typically how we plan our Christmas letter. We lay out all our photos that we gathered and then come up with stories on what we did in the past year. We’re putting that Christmas letter together this…
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Our 2007 Photo Montage
Yearly Christmas Letters — Send Us Yours!
We send out several Christmas letters every year to friends and family. We have kept up with many old friends by “exchanging” Christmas letters by mail. We tape these letters and pictures on the wall in our dining room. By New Years our wall is covered with over 100 Christmas letters from friends and family.…
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How do you budget for Christmas?
We received a question from Maria asking how we budget for Christmas. We surprise people when we say we spend roughly $300 during the month of December specifically for Christmas gifts. Here are some principles we live by throughout the year to make sure we’re prepared during the Christmas season. 1. We shop all year…
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