Finally, an honest Christmas letter!
(In an email sent to me this morning by my friend. God I love her wit!)
Names changed to protect the guilty:
I love getting the Christmas letters some folks send out. They keep one informed of the going-ons of another with tales of what they have been up to throughout the year. I have often thought of sending one out myself. Yet, I’m not that good at lying. Okay, omitting some things! Oh come on now, you know they don’t include the really good going-ons.
My Official Christmas letter.
Dearest Smith family,
It has been another wonderful year for the Jones family! We started out last January with high hopes for our eldest son, who you know was injured in a car accident the fall before. We are most glad to report he is doing great. Leaps and bounds ahead of where the doctors thought he would be.
Jason, our college student, is now half way through his 3rd year of college and a shining example to his brothers. We know he is going to go places. We have given the the house he lives in (our second house) a make over. John and little Johnny spent every Sunday over there hanging siding. The house now looks like a home.
Joshua, the third son, held down a great job at Office Max while in his last year of high school. Sales seems to be his niche in life as he has done really well. We are all eager to see him graduate this spring and soar into the world of adulthood.
Little Johnny (now 16) is now driving. He is a freshman in high school and though he struggles a bit with his grades he is turning into a fine young man.
From time to time we get the pleasure of having our granddaughter for excursions and overnights. What a joy she has been, watching her grow and learn all kinds of nice new things.
As for me I am still working part time at the nursing home. Yet most of my time is spent at home keeping the family together and on the right track.
Wishing you and yours a very merry Christmas,
The Jones family
Same letter, but now with some reality thrown in.
Dearest Smith Family,
What a fucking year it has been! As you well know we brought the new year in running from one hospital to another through the snow and the muck to visit our eldest son who was injured in a car accident the fall before. Well, the dumbass, who either climbed in a car with a drunk driver or was the drunk driver, is doing well. He took quite a bang to his head and the doctors weren’t sure he would survive it. I am happy to report he did and is ONCE AGAIN living at home. Fer fucks sake, do they ever leave and stay gone? (sneaks a sip of rum) Though he often forgets our names and refers to us as ‘assholes’ or ‘dumb bastards’ he can dress himself and wipe his own ass. So yes, things are improving there.
Jason is in his 3rd year of college and is doing well. He took a little break after his attempted suicide but is doing much better now. We are so looking forward to him getting his shit together and going back to college this new year. Of course the DUI and resisting arrest issue is not over yet. I’m sure once we have helped him drop tons of cash off with a lawyer things will look up.
He lives in our other house. We finally got around to dumping whatever extra money we did manage to save into that money pit and it is no longer being held up with a prayer. It hasn’t looked this good as far back as I can remember. Yay for John and little Johnny for the great job they did hiding out over there every Sunday last summer.
Joshua quit a great job over a piece of ass gone wrong.. (sips more rum) He is now a senior in high school and if he passes every class plus a credit recovery class he might even graduate with the rest of his class. Joshua and Jason had a “bonding period” over the summer where they both were removed by ambulance. No charges were filed though against either of them. I’m sure the States Attorney must have children of his own and realized the medical bills that ensued were punishment enough on their parents. All the broken bones from that “bonding” experience have healed. (tips rum bottle up)
Little Johnny is a freshmen in high school and though he struggles with his grades, he’s doing okay. He now drives and holds down a job, too.
As for me, well I’m still working part time at my nursing home job, though its getting harder and harder to tell me from the residents as I am now going gray. (gulps rum) But most of my time is spent at home in the loving atmosphere of my family (cough).
On occasion I am blessed with the presence of my only grandchild, Katie. A beautiful young girl almost 3 now. I am happy to report the cast is now off her arm and it’s all healed up. I am not sure where her mother actually lives as they have lost their home but, hey, her boyfriend is now out on bail from a domestic battery charge, so that’s good. Katie’s language skills are definitely improving. She can and does say ‘bitch’ as clear as a bell. (finishes off rum)
Fuck me to tears, (loads gun) if I see Santa, his ass is mine.
The Jones family












