A short New Year’s greeting to add to relatives’ cards: A collection of heartwarming ideas
When you sit down to write New Year’s cards to relatives, do you ever find yourself stuck thinking, “I just want to add a short note, but what should I write?” The words you choose can change depending on your relationship with the recipient—relatives you haven’t seen in a while, an aunt or uncle who always looks out for you, or cousins of a different generation.
In this article, we’ve gathered ideas for short messages to include in New Year’s cards to relatives.
It’s packed with ready-to-use phrases, from examples that convey gratitude to friendly messages that include brief updates.
Don’t end with a formal greeting alone—let’s start the New Year on a warm note with a heartfelt line!
A one-line message to add to New Year’s cards for relatives! A collection of heartfelt ideas (1–10)
Wishing for another year filled with health and smiles.
What’s essential for having a great time is, after all, good physical and mental health, isn’t it? When you’re feeling down or your body is tired, it’s hard to feel motivated to do anything.
As we get older, those moments may become more frequent.
So, here’s a short message you can add to your New Year’s card.
Wishing someone good health is also wishing for their happiness.
It would be wonderful if this little note encourages them to take care of their health.
May we spend many warm, heartfelt moments together.
The choice of the word “warm” seems to give a sense of warmth to a single sheet of paper—a New Year’s card.
Warm moments are surely the time spent leisurely in a room kept at a comfortable temperature, as well as the time spent chatting casually with family or friends.
It’s a wish for someone to enjoy time that brings them peace.
I imagine there are relatives you hardly ever see, but even so, being able to wish for a comfortable time for each other is a truly wonderful thing.
Wishing you a year full of happiness and joy.
Both happiness and joy are abstract expressions, but that’s precisely why they resonate with anyone and make it easy to imagine the sparkle of a new year.
It’s hard to tailor a message specifically to a relative with whom you have a bit of distance.
That said, using the same boilerplate every year lacks warmth, and if you’re going to add a line, you want to choose words that truly reach the other person.
This brief message offers a flexible option for just such situations, so please feel free to make use of it.
Wishing for a year filled with even more smiles for our family.
This is a message you’ll want to send to someone who cherishes their family.
For those who think more about their family’s happiness than their own, these words will be especially heartwarming.
When family smiles increase, the home brightens, and happy times will naturally continue.
To relatives you’re close with as families, share this phrase while wishing happiness for each other’s families.
Sending it along with a smiling family photo will heighten the sense of joy and may light the way to a wonderful future.
Wishing you lots of wonderful things in the New Year.
Last year was full of wonderful things, wasn’t it? This phrase lets you look back on your memories that way.
The New Year is a time to set resolutions and wishes, so it’s also important to reflect on what kind of year it was.
With this phrase, you can reminisce about last year while expressing the hope that those lovely days will continue this year too.
And if you spent happy times with that person, it will also convey the wish to share more wonderful experiences together.
May it be a fulfilling year for both of us.
So that we can say at year’s end that it was a good year, we all want to spend fulfilling days again this year.
Will you throw yourself into your work, savor your hobbies, or make lots of memories with your family? Fulfillment looks different for everyone, but it’s always filled with plenty of joyful moments.
Why not add this short message to your New Year’s card, wishing for days that make the year feel short because they’re so rich? Since it says “for both of us,” make sure you, too, don’t fall behind—have a wonderful year yourself.
May we find lots of little happinesses this year as well.
When we chase after great happiness, we often overlook the small joys right nearby.
This message might be a phrase that helps us notice that tendency.
If you include it with your New Year’s greeting, the recipient may find themselves wondering, “What are my small happinesses?” and perhaps scoop up bits of unnoticed joy.
And you, the one writing this line, may also notice the small happinesses you’ve been overlooking and feel your heart grow warm.
I hope this year will be filled with happiness again.
When do you feel moments of happiness? When you’re eating with family, chatting with friends, or losing track of time as you dive into a hobby—different scenes probably come to mind for each person.
If your life is filled with those happy moments, you’ll surely spend your time feeling many times more fulfilled.
This phrase is a message wishing that many such moments of happiness will come to that person.
Please share these words with someone special, so you, too, can be part of their happiness.
May the new year bring lots of good things to both of us.
I think there are many things we want to wish for in the New Year.
But if we bundle them all together, they might be summed up in this single phrase.
The words “good things” carry the hope that the year will be more fulfilling and that a brighter future will come.
As you wish for many good things to happen for yourself and for the other person, try adding this simple phrase to your New Year’s card.
Just seeing the words “for both of us” evokes a sense of closeness, like companions sharing joys and hardships, and it can become a source of support for the heart.
Wishing you warm, heartwarming days in the New Year.
It’s a phrase that evokes the feeling of your heart slowly filling up, like the moment you suddenly notice someone’s kindness.
Doesn’t it make the perfect message for winter and for a peaceful New Year? If you add this phrase to your New Year’s greeting, your words may help bring warm, heartening days to that person.
I hope this year will be one in which you not only appreciate others’ thoughtfulness, but also become someone who can bring warmth to someone else’s heart.