And isn't it a little odd that the mother decided to take her daughter's Christmas letter to the press?

The extreme of this is the Christmas letter (below).

They did nothing or they sent a Christmas letter.

"My father used to send a Christmas letter," he said.

The editor told of how the two had exchanged annual Christmas letters, not presents.

A Christmas letter - in case you've never read one - is the family version of a corporation's annual report.

He writes the Christmas letters because they are the kind of thing he likes to read.

The personal portions of the long Christmas letter may properly be preserved.

For a Christmas letter, this has gone beyond bounds.

He lives in a rural town where local people answer Christmas letters mailed to Santa.