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This is a jpg of our Christmas card this year. To fit on the blog page it had to somewhat small because I can’t figure out how to make this page wider. Anyway, it is a little difficult to read the poem so I will post it below.

We look forward to celebrating the holidays with our family and friends over the coming weeks!

Much love,
Katelyn & Paul

The Shortest Day

And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive.
And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, revelling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us – listen!
All the long echoes, sing the same delight,
This Shortest Day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.

~ Susan Cooper