So, today I had brunch with cousins I had not seen in many years. They live in Ohio.
There's a pattern here. Texas, Indiana, Alabama and now Ohio.
Pretty impressive, especially since I ain't living on the beach or something.
These are my second cousins and their brood. I had not seen one since 1987, when my grandmother (her great-grandmother) died. None of us could determine the last time we'd seen her brother.
So, Brother Of Many Surgeries, Other Brother, Daughter and myself gathered with the eight of them this morning and spent a few hours laughing and getting tearful down memory lane.
But why now? Why this year? It seems interesting to me that suddenly I am seeing folks for the first time in over twenty years from all over the United States.
That's a stretch, I guess, but it feels that way. I am bedazzled and befuddled.
And wished I was a dozen pounds lighter, if I take a minute to be vain.
I'm not sure any of us have seen each other clearly, anyway.
We are looking through glasses colored with childhood memories.
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Friday, July 3, 2015
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Company's A'Coming!
Well, actually they came. And they weren't really company.
It was Husband's Baby Sister and Husband's Baby Sister's Husband. We hadn't seen Baby Sister in way over a year, and I've lost count as to how long it's been since we saw her husband. I think it's been over four years, or close to it.
They live in Alabama (don't hold it against them - much -), but travel a lot. They were in Africa for almost a year, returning just before this past Christmas.
Anyway, as you may have noticed if you live around here, it was cold and blowing snow all day. I had a cast iron dutch oven full of homemade vegetable soup, a pone of cornbread, and a roaring fire in the fireplace.
We talked, ate, laughed, and warmed ourselves with fire and soup.
They didn't stay nearly long enough. There was more family to visit.
Husband's Baby Sister gave us a gift of a small, carved, wooden bowl from Africa. It is quite beautiful.
But their visit was even more so.
Sometimes, days are close to perfect.
Their visit made this one close for sure.
It was Husband's Baby Sister and Husband's Baby Sister's Husband. We hadn't seen Baby Sister in way over a year, and I've lost count as to how long it's been since we saw her husband. I think it's been over four years, or close to it.
They live in Alabama (don't hold it against them - much -), but travel a lot. They were in Africa for almost a year, returning just before this past Christmas.
Anyway, as you may have noticed if you live around here, it was cold and blowing snow all day. I had a cast iron dutch oven full of homemade vegetable soup, a pone of cornbread, and a roaring fire in the fireplace.
We talked, ate, laughed, and warmed ourselves with fire and soup.
They didn't stay nearly long enough. There was more family to visit.
Husband's Baby Sister gave us a gift of a small, carved, wooden bowl from Africa. It is quite beautiful.
But their visit was even more so.
Sometimes, days are close to perfect.
Their visit made this one close for sure.
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