A Parent To Their Child About Christmas

A Dear Jackrabbit letter

For the first year after my son was born, I made it a weekly habit to write him letters documenting many of my thoughts and feelings during his first year of life.

This is one of those letters… sort of. The original “Dear Jackrabbit” letter contained family stuff that is important to literally no one outside our house. Still, there were a lot of things in those letters that I believe worthy of sharing.

Forgive me my indulgence if I think this might be one of those things–particularly as we are drawn ever-deeper into the holiday season.

Presented here, slightly revised for more public consideration, is my son’s first “Dear Jackrabbit” Christmas letter.

Dear Jackrabbit,

Today is Christmas.

Merry Christmas!

You and your mother just left for church–your second time going to church in less than 12 hours. We went to Midnight Mass last night and now I’m busy helping Santa rewrap presents. He was in kind of a rush and didn’t do that neat a job.