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The Twelve Years of Christmas

The Hotly Contested Memoirs of a Slightly Sub-normal, Rural Family through the Use and Abuse of Those Dreaded Form Letters

Rochelle Doan Craig is an unrecognized artist. A much-maligned, burned-out school teacher. And a tough-love mother of six. What does she know about kids and family. Lots! Rochelle (Shelley to her friends) and her husband Tom live with their kids and pets on their cliff-top Lake Erie farm and do more than watch the world go by. They live it, love it, fight with it.

The Twelve Years of Christmas is not just a Christmas story. It’s a journal presented in the form of those dreaded, much-cursed Christmas form letters. It is skin-tickling honest.

Newlyweds Rochelle and Tom Craig moved to a farm in a friendly rural community to raise a crop of children. And so it begins…