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Kids grow up fast. Really fast. I'm feeling completely sick at my lack of contact with the cousins over the last few years.
Granted, I was never a real Auntie, but it makes me a little sad now that I see the photo updates, and realize that a few years for me is a long time for them, and they probably do not remember Auntie Christle.
When I saw them last:
Ryan was 4
Christopher was 3
Alex was 3
Michael was not even a year old yet.
Now, Shaylyn has been born, and Paige, and Elizabeth, with one more little nephew on the way.
And the do not know me anymore. I'm not a welcome face, they don't remember coloring or making cookies, or watching baby Einstein.
Michael is almost 4 now, and he will not remember that I read "Alice in Wonderland" to him one morning in its entirety or that I called him "Little Butt", or sometimes, when I was feeling extra silly, "Butt-Butt". I'm sure he doesn't know that always fell asleep on me when I was wearing my red fleece jacket.
I miss those kids. It hurts that they don't miss me.
xxx
Ryan, Chris, Shaylyn, Alex
Michael
Elizabeth
Paige
Granted, I was never a real Auntie, but it makes me a little sad now that I see the photo updates, and realize that a few years for me is a long time for them, and they probably do not remember Auntie Christle.
When I saw them last:
Ryan was 4
Christopher was 3
Alex was 3
Michael was not even a year old yet.
Now, Shaylyn has been born, and Paige, and Elizabeth, with one more little nephew on the way.
And the do not know me anymore. I'm not a welcome face, they don't remember coloring or making cookies, or watching baby Einstein.
Michael is almost 4 now, and he will not remember that I read "Alice in Wonderland" to him one morning in its entirety or that I called him "Little Butt", or sometimes, when I was feeling extra silly, "Butt-Butt". I'm sure he doesn't know that always fell asleep on me when I was wearing my red fleece jacket.
I miss those kids. It hurts that they don't miss me.
xxx
Ryan, Chris, Shaylyn, Alex
Michael
Elizabeth
Paige