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Aug. 13th, 2013 05:58 pmI've noticed sometimes when I meet a friend's family that I understand my friend a whole lot better. In the context of the people closest to them, everything about them suddenly makes sense.
In much the same way, I found the part of me that makes sense this past weekend. Even though we had just made our annual PA trip a month earlier, we got in the car again on Thursday and drove eight hours to spend a long weekend in PA for a reunion of my mother's family. My 99 year old grandfather was there. All four of my mother's brothers were there (two full, two half) as well as her half sister and all but three of my cousins (one from Minnesota that I've never met, the one who's working on Martha's Vineyard this summer, and my youngest aunt's oldest daughter who was spending the weekend with her father). My brother and his wife drove out from New Jersey with their two boys. It was actually a little surreal to see the Massachusetts relatives in PA for a change.
Some I had seen recently. Some I hadn't seen in years. My great-aunt and my great-niece were both in the same room.
It was totally worth the drive.
I feel whole.
In much the same way, I found the part of me that makes sense this past weekend. Even though we had just made our annual PA trip a month earlier, we got in the car again on Thursday and drove eight hours to spend a long weekend in PA for a reunion of my mother's family. My 99 year old grandfather was there. All four of my mother's brothers were there (two full, two half) as well as her half sister and all but three of my cousins (one from Minnesota that I've never met, the one who's working on Martha's Vineyard this summer, and my youngest aunt's oldest daughter who was spending the weekend with her father). My brother and his wife drove out from New Jersey with their two boys. It was actually a little surreal to see the Massachusetts relatives in PA for a change.
Some I had seen recently. Some I hadn't seen in years. My great-aunt and my great-niece were both in the same room.
It was totally worth the drive.
I feel whole.
