Loving my family
I had an unexpectedly fantastic Thanksgiving this year. Sabrina is away visiting her family in Oklahoma, and I was scheduled to work, so Trent was going to go his mom's and I figured I'd just watch a movie and enjoy a diner turkey meal to go. But a week ago I got an email from a cousin who lives in NY state only about 40 minutes from my work, and then on Wednesday the boss said to leave early if nothing was going on and we had everything done for Friday. So I arranged for Trent to come with me and after a few hours at the office we headed up to visit with family and their friends. The visit was awesome, had some great conversation and met some very interesting people, but the best part was catching up with my cousin Maura. I've always clicked well with her, and so after everyone else left about 10:00, we found ourselves sipping the year old winter warmer I made last October and catching up till 1:00 am. I really love her and enjoyed this immensely, and am really happy we've reconnected over the past year. While she lives in uber yuppie-ville, she is a really wonderful, down to earth woman with a huge heart. I'm now even more excited for moving into our new home, so I can have a house warming and invite her and her family to join us. As old relationships in my life that no longer serve me keep trickling away, the new relationships and reconnected old ones that are filling that space seem to be really filling a space in my life I didn't even know needed filling. And again I note... life just keeps getting better.
"It turns me on to think of growing old." - John Denver: Poems, Prayers and Promises