Empty Nest: generation gathering

Friday, March 23, 2018

Crazy is as Crazy Does

Some days are filled with work. Some days are filled with fun. Some days are filled with 4 generations in the same house. And that's just what we had yesterday.

Did I bother to get a group picture? Did I bother to be IN a picture? That would be a no to both. But it was such fun and I enjoyed talking to my sweetest most wonderful cousins who brought Aunt Betty down to Mother's so much I just didn't pay as much attention to taking pictures as I should.

I did take a couple of pictures, though.

The oldest and the youngest.

That's my Aunt Betty with Baby R. Aunt Betty is Mother's one and only sibling and she still holds the title of World's Best Aunt after all these years. Aunt Betty will be 90 next year. She doesn't look it, does she?

Three generations.

Trying to take pictures when the subjects include a toddler and a baby is interesting, to say the least. But the adults get a kick out of it.

Of course, the grands fast became the center of attention.

Aunt Betty is Bug and Baby R's great, great auntie. And she brought bunnies.

And those bunnies were a BIG hit with the littles.

I don't know what Aunt Betty said, but it sure was funny!

Aunt Betty is awesome, isn't she?

Our family is like this. The kind who decide on a random day to take road trips from two ends of the state to meet in the middle just to visit for a couple hours. To take a minute and remember what's really important in life. To take and spend time with one another. To recant tales of days gone by. To remember loved ones gone ahead of us. To laugh until we ache in that good way you do when the laughter is true and deep. To look around the room and know the comfort, the joy, the crazy, the love, and know you wouldn't trade any of it for any other family in the world because this is your perfect fit. And to share this with the youngest members and know they will be loved deeper and truer all their days gives us such joy and peace.

We got all kinds of crazy in our family tree but that's ok. It's our crazy and none of us would have it any other way.

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Being a transplant to the low-country of SC for 31 years is still not long enough to be called a ‘benyeh.’ If I stay until I’m dead I’ll probably go a ‘comeyeh’ since I am, originally, ‘from off’ (which is the upstate but, rules you know). By day I take care of my sweet little granddaughter, Baby M and do all those things I did when I was a SAHM raising four daughters which has translated to, ‘by day, I am exhausted.’ By night I blog, blog, blog, and blog some more or I sleep, depending on my level of exhaustion (do they still make Geritol?). I have a very unhealthy addiction to sweets (nearly any kind will do) and all comfort foods not covered under the ‘sweets’ category. I’m known for speaking my mind so, if you don’t want to know, don’t ask me. I love to find the humor in my empty nest life. I live life hard and smack into that brick wall almost daily because I’ve always had to learn the hard way. Why change now? I’m so glad you’ve come to laugh with me as I do this middle age, empty nest thing like a BOSS!