Rachel (R): Nicolas, are you ready?
Nicolas (N):
R: Nicolas?
N:
R: Nicolas!
N: What?
R: What are you doing?
N: I’m working on our holiday letter website!
R: It is about time.🙄 We are already behind. This is our first year using the website for “virtual reality.”
N: That’s not what that means. Plus, there are still people reading this letter on paper.
R: Yes, and we are happy to have consumers read in all formats: e-books, paperback, hardcover, audio…
N: You’re plugging your book now, aren’t you.
R: Maybe. But we’ll get to that later.😉
R: Let’s kick things off with our 2024 motto.
N: “Live Life to the Fullest!”
R: The end of 2023 was hard when your mom passed away on Christmas. Coming into 2024, we took some time to reflect.
N: Life is short.
R: We all say it, but what do we really do about it? This year, Nicolas announced his (our) plan.
N: Travel! We traveled A LOT this year.
R: We traveled every month except for those with the letters “August.”
N: It was great!
R: Yes, but here’s the thing. We write these letters each New Year about all the exciting stuff in the past year.
N: So?
R: So, it makes our life sound WAY more exciting than it really is. It’s like curating a life on social media.
N: Okay, so what do you want to do about it?
R: I think we should throw in some of the mundane and not-at-all-exciting-day-in-the-life stuff to balance everything out. Make it more raw and gritty.
N: 🤨
R: Let’s just dive in, and I’ll show you what I mean as we go along.