As is typical with most American households I would assume, my wife is typically the one who handles Christmas card responsibilites, and in most years, this isn't an issue. She's got plenty of time to select a photo or photos, find a design that she likes, run to Costco, print address labels or (because she's awesome) hand write addresses with a Christmassy pen, buy stamps, affix those stamps, and get to the post office to deliver them.
I just wrote an entire paragraph about how much work goes into Christmas cards. I had no idea. This December has been sort of a whirlwind (more on that later) and there just wasn't time to handle the Christmas cards. Plus, Rachel has a theory that the Christmas card industry is dying out due to oversharing on Facebook/Instagram/etc. She's sort of taking an inventory of how many Christmas cards we get this year vs. how many we typically send out. So, to those of you who sent us a Christmas card this year, thank you. You're the reason I'm writing this.
So, 2015: best year ever for the Lasselles? You could make that case. We spent New Year's Eve at Disneyland - hard to top that opening! Jonah really got into sports this year... REALLY INTO them. He played basketball and baseball, but his real true love is soccer. He would set his alarm for before six am to watch games live in Europe, took a ball with him to school whenever he could, and wears a different soccer jersey pretty much every day. Rachel coached his team (as well as Jocelyn's), and it's been great fun to have something our entire family can enjoy together.
Jocelyn also found something she's passionate about: dancing. She began taking ballet this year, and just recently performed in her first recital. She likes the dance outfits, the shoes, the songs...she's hooked. She is just as feisty as ever as she transitions from a toddler to a little kid. She still has her moments where the toddler in her comes out, demanding that someone else go get her blanket because her legs won't work, blocking the television until you agree to play princesses with her, that sort of thing. But she's taken a serious interest in learning to read, and is always offering to help cook meals, fold clothes, empty the dishwasher - you know, becoming a productive human.
As for Rachel and I, we're just trying to hold it together parenting these two. I just "celebrated" ten years at the OSU Foundation this week. You know you're getting old when you start talking about things that have lasted decades in your life. Rachel also had an eventful year at work, which culminated last week with her being promoted to manager of her department! She never ceases to amaze me with the constant internal motor she has. She's one of the few people I've ever seen that tries to be all things to all people and actually succeeds at it.
So there you have it. We had pretty fantastic 2015 - from Disneyland, to dance recitals, soccer practice, more soccer practice, tailgating at Beaver games, a trip to Wisconsin in the summer, more soccer practice, surprising Jonah for his birthday with a trip to see the Portland Timbers win an incredible playoff game in penalty kicks, our first official family camping trip to Elk Lake, bike riding, roller skating, 4th of July at the beach , and everything else in between. Hope your year was as great as ours, and that next year we all are able to tell each other 2016 was the best year yet.
Happy Holidays,
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| photo credit: Ava Joyce Photography |
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