Holiday letter for family and friends

Dear Mom and Dad,

I am writing this at the kitchen table with a mug of cocoa, the way you used to make it, and I wanted to tell you something I do not say enough: thank you for every Christmas you gave me.

I know now what I did not know as a child. I know how carefully you saved for those presents. I know how late you stayed up assembling bicycles and wrapping gifts, and how tired you must have been when we woke you at five in the morning. You never once let us see it. All we saw was the magic.

That magic stayed with me. It is in the way I decorate my own home, the songs I play while I cook and the recipes I still call you to check. Every tradition I keep is a small thank-you to you both.

S Sam

Dear Mom and Dad, I am writing this at the kitchen table with a mug of cocoa, the way you used to make it, and I wanted to tell you something I do not say enough: thank you for every Christmas you gave me. I know now what I did not know as a child. I know how carefully you saved for those presents. I know how late you stayed up assembling bicycles and wrapping gifts, and how tired you must have been when we woke you at five in the morning. You never once let us see it. All we saw was the magic. That magic stayed with me. It is in the way I decorate my own home, the songs I play while I cook and the recipes I still call you to check. Every tradition I keep is a small thank-you to you both. This year, I hope you let someone else do the work. Sit down, put your feet up and let us take care of you for a change. You have more than earned it. Merry Christmas. I love you both more every year. With all my love and gratitude,

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Dear Mom and Dad,

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S Sam

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🎉 Dear Mom and Dad, I am writing this at the kitchen table with a mug of cocoa, the way you used to make it, and I wanted to tell you something I do not say enough: thank you for every Christmas you gave me. I know now what I did not know as a child. I know how carefully you saved for those presents. I know how late you stayed up assembling bicycles and wrapping gifts, and how tired you must have been when we woke you at five in the morning. You never once let us see it. All we saw was the magic. That magic stayed with me. It is in the way I decorate my own home, the songs I play while I cook and the recipes I still call you to check. Every tradition I keep is a small thank-you to you both. This year, I hope you let someone else do the work. Sit down, put your feet up and let us take care of you for a change. You have more than earned it. Merry Christmas. I love you both more every year. With all my love and gratitude,

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Dear Mom and Dad,
I am writing this at the kitchen table with a mug of cocoa, the way you used to make it, and I wanted to tell you something I do not say enough: thank you for every Christmas you gave me.
I know now what I did not know as a child. I know how carefully you saved for those presents. I know how late you stayed up assembling bicycles and wrapping gifts, and how tired you must have been when we woke you at five in the morning. You never once let us see it. All we saw was the magic.
That magic stayed with me. It is in the way I decorate my own home, the songs I play while I cook and the recipes I still call you to check. Every tradition I keep is a small thank-you to you both.
This year, I hope you let someone else do the work. Sit down, put your feet up and let us take care of you for a change. You have more than earned it.
Merry Christmas. I love you both more every year.
With all my love and gratitude,

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Every December I tell myself I will write this letter, and every year the wrapping paper wins. Not this time. Before the chaos of Christmas Eve begins, I want to tell you what you mean to me. This year was full. We welcomed new faces, said a few hard goodbyes and spent more evenings on the phone than around the same table. Through all of it, you were the people I called first, with good news and bad. Thank you for the long chats, the care packages and the way you always make me feel like I never left home. When I think of Christmas, I think of you: the smell of the kitchen early in the morning, the music that is a little too loud, the same jokes told every year and laughed at anyway. Those traditions are the threads that tie us together, and I treasure every one. So this year, I hope we slow down a little. Let the dishes wait. Stay at the table longer. Take the silly photo. These are the moments I want to remember when I am old. Merry Christmas to the people I love most in the world. With all my love,

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