Family, Family, and MORE Family
posted January 4th, 2007 by Shannon
I spent 9 days visiting family for the holidays and had a great time. Tonight I realized that in each of the past 4 days I have shared a meal with different members of my extended family. Lunch in my hometown with my family on Monday. Dinner with some members of G’s family on Tuesday. Lunch on Wednesday with my sister-in-law and her daughter as I was running errands in her neck of the woods. And finally dinner with my extended family tonight.
How much family would that be? I’m glad you asked. It would be 2 grandparents, 2 parents, 2 parents-in-law, 2 sisters, 2 sisters-in-law, 3 brothers-in-law, 1 niece, 1 nephew, 7 cousins, 3 aunts, 3 uncles, 4 first cousins once removed (or children of my cousins).
If you want to extend that to include the past 2 weeks you can add 2 more grandparents, 2 more brothers-in-law, 2 uncles-in-law, 2 aunts-in-law, 1 cousin-in-law and 3 first-cousins-once-removed-in-laws (or something like that). But that is getting WAY too complicated so I’ll stop there.
One of the cousins I was able to see tonight was a cousin George has never met. He brought his two kids for us all to meet. It was really good to see him after such a long absence.
George and I both feel blessed to have such family around us. There are definitely crazy moments, and I doubt that any of our family gatherings will ever be called “calm”. But we do feel blessed.
Filed under: Family on January 4th, 2007
Goodness that is a lot of family and a lot of visiting!
You could add two more grandparents to the “past 2 weeks” list since my parents joined us for our “post-Christmas” dinner! Britt and I would have loved to had been there for the meal Thursday night but glad you were able to represent us. Granny said Hannah was passed around a lot but lived up to the meaning of her name, “Grace”
Yes, I’ve been meaning to add those two grandparents to the list all day. (Even have a note written here on a sticky note to do that.) I’ll go do it now.
Thanks for asking us to join you while in our neck of the woods. We enjoyed our first trip to Ikea.