Morrow Family Christmas Letter #9: Christmas 2010

Cuties. You get one guess at which one is
faking her "sleep" for the Christmas Card... 

These are consequential times. The frivolity of the Morrow Family Christmas Letter (MFCL) from so many years past simply will not do in 2010. We are in the midst of a recession. People are literally fighting to protect their “junk” from enhanced patdowns at airports. Our children likely will never know the joy of a joystick, cassette tapes, typewriters, camcorders large enough to throw your back out, the Soviet Union, or private health insurance.  What’s next, Happy Meal toys? Yet here we sit. Staring at the blank page destined soon to drip with our annual Manifesto of Holiday Cheer. And no one is in the mood to laugh.

Further complicating matters, private conversations between Morrow Family Christmas Letter diplomats recently were