I've done one since I started having children, and I do it for them and no one else. As busy as life seems to keep me, I don't have the time to scrapbook or diary like I'd like to...but, by doing an annual letter, someday my children will have a record of some of the highlights of their childhood.

All that being said, I look upon the annual task with dread. Once I start writing, it seems to go fast, but I must *force* myself to begin. I know that my relatives and a lot of my friends look forward to my annual missive, and I've been told how funny and entertaining it usually is...which, of course, only adds to the pressure of maintaining that same effect from year-to-year. I do enjoy reading the letters of others, although I have one friend who insists from year-to-year on writing (I kid you not) a three-page letter--FRONT AND BACK. Sad to say, it's pretty tiresome, and I unfortunately end up skimming most of it. My rule has always been one page, front and back, at most, and it seems to work okay.

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"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, then let it, and if you have to wait for what you really want, take the time because nobody said that life would be easy. They just promised it would be worth it." ~ Unknown author