for justprompts
"Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about." -Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park
Well. I never thought I'd find myself commenting on words of wisdom from South Park of all programs. But this struck a chord with me when I saw it.
I was an only child. My mother had little to no interest in me at all, and my father had far too much interest in me. He was concerned not necessarily with my well-being or my happiness, but with my success. In a way, I never really thought about my parents as family. They were simply the folks who were in charge of me, who told me what to do, who talked at me rather than with me.
I learned what family truly meant when I met Jonathan, and when I met his parents. After we got married, we wastd no time in trying to start a family of our own, keeping in mind the lessons we had learned from our own respective families. It turned out we couldn't have children of our own, and for a long time, we couldn't bring ourselves even to consider adoption. Then Clark dropped into our lives, and I think that was when we realized that family has nothing to do with blood. The love is felt for this child so...instantly, so unconditionally, from the seconds our eyes met...it was boundless. For twenty years, that was family. The three of us, "the reclusive Kents." It sounds corny but really, to us, nothing else ever mattered. And then Gracie was born. You never think a family can become more perfect than it is. Then suddenly it does.
Of course, our family extends even past the four of us. Lois, Chloe, and Lana are like daughters to me, and since he was a toddler, Pete's been like a son. I'm so incredibly proud of my little extended, makeshift family. Like all families we have our issues (you have no idea), but I couldn't ever be happier.
Well. I never thought I'd find myself commenting on words of wisdom from South Park of all programs. But this struck a chord with me when I saw it.
I was an only child. My mother had little to no interest in me at all, and my father had far too much interest in me. He was concerned not necessarily with my well-being or my happiness, but with my success. In a way, I never really thought about my parents as family. They were simply the folks who were in charge of me, who told me what to do, who talked at me rather than with me.
I learned what family truly meant when I met Jonathan, and when I met his parents. After we got married, we wastd no time in trying to start a family of our own, keeping in mind the lessons we had learned from our own respective families. It turned out we couldn't have children of our own, and for a long time, we couldn't bring ourselves even to consider adoption. Then Clark dropped into our lives, and I think that was when we realized that family has nothing to do with blood. The love is felt for this child so...instantly, so unconditionally, from the seconds our eyes met...it was boundless. For twenty years, that was family. The three of us, "the reclusive Kents." It sounds corny but really, to us, nothing else ever mattered. And then Gracie was born. You never think a family can become more perfect than it is. Then suddenly it does.
Of course, our family extends even past the four of us. Lois, Chloe, and Lana are like daughters to me, and since he was a toddler, Pete's been like a son. I'm so incredibly proud of my little extended, makeshift family. Like all families we have our issues (you have no idea), but I couldn't ever be happier.