Sonya Contreras

I am best known as the mother of eight boys and author of Christmas letters that actually are read and enjoyed. The boys keep me hopping with homeschooling (everything from reading and arithmetic to acting like gentlemen in a world without manners), baseball (one sport per year chosen for my sanity), their lawn and garden business, chores: gardening, chickens, horses, milk and beef cows, bees, dogs, cats, occasionally goats and pigs, and hobbies: taxidermy, fishing, hunting, showing chickens, (all not my choice) and just household maintenance (cleaning occasionally).
My husband of twenty-three years reminds me of the reason we have chosen these things when my energy is low and sanity is gone. He tells me he loves me every day regardless of how little of my mind is left.
We enjoy our home, in spite of the lack of sanity, in the foothills of the Sequoias.

www.sonyacontreras.com for past Christmas letters, blogs, and poems to encourage