Christmas cards

Yearly, we send Christmas cards to seminarians from East TN.  I have each family member write them and then we pray for those seminarians during Advent and Christmas.  When Marian was writing her cards, she asked me how to spell "condolences".  I looked at her oddly and asked who died?  She was unsure of the word, but I told her I thought it wasn't condolences.  Not something you say to someone unless they are grieving a loss of a loved one.  She eventually found her word.