{"id":13631,"date":"2015-12-21T11:11:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T17:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/?p=13631"},"modified":"2024-11-09T01:57:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T07:57:22","slug":"mailbag-better-late-than-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flandersfamily.info\/web\/2015\/12\/21\/mailbag-better-late-than-never\/","title":{"rendered":"Mailbag: Better Late than Never!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I use Mondays to clear out my inbox. Questions of general interest, I post on the blog. It may take me awhile to answer, but better late than never!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question: Why’s your Christmas letter late?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dear Doug and Jennifer,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ve been waiting and waiting. Where’s the Flanders Family update? Are you guys ever going to write one this year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answer: We’ve been a little pre-occupied!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

That’s a question we’ve been fielding all month long. The folks who know we normally mail our Christmas letters<\/a> the day before Thanksgiving are wondering whether they’ve been dropped from our mailing list.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer is yes, we did write our annual update. And no, we didn’t drop anybody from our list. We’ve just been extra-slow getting them in the mail this year.
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Part of the problem was that the photo — a family shot from David’s October wedding — wasn’t ready in time for us to assemble the cards while kids were all home for Thanksgiving. So they requested we wait until school let out for Christmas break<\/strong> before staging our annual Christmas card assembly line<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Television Interview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

But then we spent a week in Gatlinburg, Tennessee<\/strong>, where we were interviewed by Al Jazeera’s America Tonight<\/a> for a story on big, “quiverfull” families.<\/p>\n\n\n

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That report hasn’t aired yet, but I’ll be sure to post a link when it does.<\/del> Update: It’s live now. We weren’t sure what kind of hatchet job they might’ve planned for our family, but were very pleased with the final cut (even if reporter Adam May did tug at my heartstrings a little)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n