A Family Christmas

Sometime in November my nephew Sam wrote a letter to Santa. He stuffed it into an envelope, put a 1 cent stamp on it and mailed it to the North Pole. Then he waited.

My sister-in-law Sophie had peeked at it, as is usually necessary to make such dreams come true, but this year the magic happened all on its own.

Right before Christmas a package arrived from the North Pole (and Sophie had nothing to do with it!). Sam had asked for one thing: A book on making paper airplanes. What Santa sent him was two books, paper, scissors, colored pencils and all sorts of other goodies, and this handwritten, personal letter:

Clearly this Santa not only gets joy out of making children happy, but also has a sense of humour. How awesome is that?

(The post office offers a program where people can pick up letters to Santa and fulfill wishes. Love it!!)

The rest of Christmas was filled with wonderful surprises as well, including finding out that my brother Jarrett and his family from BC were staying 1 mile away from our Cofman gathering in Palm Desert, CA. The whole scenario was a recipe for fun times, great food and long-overdue reunioning.

Alan, Greg (Rose's brother), his friend Star, my brother Jarrett and his Rose, and my Nick.

Eric

Rose 

 Sophie

 Moi

 Jellema siblings and their broods

Happy Cofmans

More happy Cofmans!

The accommodations were not bad. Thank you Ilona & Michel!

I'm detecting a theme here...

So long!