Dear Children and Grandchildren:

For many years we have enjoyed playing the Birthday and Christmas games but as we have become older and the number of "players" has increased we find that our playing pieces (dollars) have shrunk and our expenses have increased. So we "coaches" have decided to let Santa and Mrs. Claus take care of Christmas gift giving, which they do very well without our help.

We feel there need to be changes in the birthday game. So, for now we will send only ten playing pieces to each birthday game player.

We hope you know we love all of you very much and want to remember your birthdays as you and they are special!

With love,

The "Coaches"