Merry Christmas 2005
Well, if last year taught us anything, it’s this – don’t wait until the Christmas letter is done to send out the Christmas cards. I’m staring of a stack of our cards from 2004, which, to our great embarrassment, never got sent. So now you know the truth. Your card did not get lost in the mail. You weren’t scratched from the list for some perceived impropriety. You weren’t overlooked in a bizarre mailing list snafu. The Wagner Family Christmas Letter 2004 simply wasn’t. Alas. And those of you who said it was bound to happen, that “one just can’t keep up such a pace”, may now take a moment to enjoy a well-earned “I told you so.” There now. I feel better. How about you? Good. Then let’s move on.
I’m pleased to announce that the 2004 Christmas Letter is at last finished, and, furthermore, the 2005 Letter is, well, getting awfully close. You can find them both - in such state as they may be – along with some various other tidbits (photos and video and the like) at our website (uh, that would be here). Which is to say that this is not, in fact, the Christmas Letter, but rather a clever distraction to allow me the time to finish the real one. I know, I know. You’re disappointed on the one hand at having been duped into thinking this was the real thing, and yet, on the other hand, you’re thrilled at not having to actually read the whole blasted thing. I understand completely.
Well, I think I can offer concessions to both camps. For the disappointed, I present the highlights of this year’s major events and their participants, and for the relieved, I can attest that only the sparsest verbiage will be used, and absolutely nothing funny will be added whatsoever. Here goes.
- After threatening to move for more than two years, we are in exactly the same place.
(Almost everyone else in the family has moved. Contact us for their new addresses.)
- I no longer work for NASA/JPL, but have instead cast my lot out into the Boundless Blue.
- Lori, still a domestic diva, is now officially Diva Domestica, adding entrepreneur to her long list of attributes and activities.
- Sarah is now 4 years old, forty inches tall, and weighs forty pounds.
- Nicole is 6 years old, can read 6th-grade books, and has a sixth sense of humor.
- Hunter is 8 years old, has lost 8 teeth, and, if it’s dessert, probably ate that too.
We are wishing you Peace and Love and Joy this holiday season. May the new year bring you prosperity and bring us together. (And if you’re going to come visit, better make it snappy. No, really. I mean it this time.)
Be well.
Michael, Lori, Hunter, Nicole, and Sarah Wagner