11/24/2011

Family

So here it is, thanksgiving and I've spent the day with family. First of all, my family is so nice. I'm fortunate for that. Sadly though, how horrible is it that I could walk past my family in the street, bump shoulders w them & I still wouldn't recognize them??! There are 2 cousins here that I haven't seen in 4 years, then 7 years before that....and nope, wouldn't know em. Then there is the aunt & uncle in connecticut that I don't even remember the last time I saw them! They could walk in right now & I'd think they were robbers. Then throw in the cousin in denver that I used my powers of deduction to figure out who he was....and I feel horrible!
Now those are all on my dad's side. My mom's side gets further out before I get lost on who's who. But it's a smaller family tree so that's a pretty good excuse.
I should get to know my family. Or at least be able to recognize them if I pass them on the street.

1 comment:

Emily/Randomability said...

OMG.. You'd HATE my family.

My Dad is the 2nd oldest out of 13, so I'm 4th oldest out of 29 cousins!! Most of whom I would recognize and others maybe not. Most of us are on facebook. We even have overlap between my generation and the next. So far, there are 17 kids between 7 of us in the next generation (my kids line). Did that make sense?

My Mom is number 4 out of 5, but I'm still in the middle, #6 of 10 (All of whom I would recognize and know).