Do your Christmas letters look like this?
I just read The World's Best Family Christmas Letter from The World's Best Family. It's a hilarious treatise. Basically, you get letters from people who never call, write or email you, but who want to let you "catch up" about their kids, church volunteer efforts, accolades and careers all rosied up with tidbits about how environmentally friendly and health-conscious they are.
Have you also noticed that the older the letter writers get the more it reads like a health journal? (Grandpa had [insert procedure] done to his liver. I had my [insert organ] removed.)
Us? We blog. That's how we brag about our kids, volunteer efforts, accolades, etc. =)