I took my sister to the airport Tuesday morning.
Seeing family is a very special thing - I'm so grateful that she came to visit. While the visit was so much fun, saying goodbye again was not easy.
When you leave home, it's NOT easy to live your daily life, trying to put the fact that you've left your family and friends out of your mind. Seeing them, and saying goodbye again -only makes us more home sick.
I've explained to my sister (and my brother) that we are very lucky to have had so much time together. We spent 19 years living within just a few miles of each other. As 4 families we got Christmas's, Easter's, birthdays, parties, adventure's and every day life together. Mom's cooking, and Dad's jokes were the center glue in this family.
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While we all grew up together in Ohio...
we became families together in Seattle.
We got to raise our children together, to raise them as more than cousins, but as close friends. These are relationships that will be with them for their lifetime. We've laid solid ground for this generation to carry on this crazy Snell bond.
As I told my sister before I left Seattle... I was on a 2 year plan, and what's 2 years in our 75 years together?
Right now it feels like alot...
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Sometimes I will talk to my friends about my family; telling stories of cousin game nights, hangin around my aunts for hours, or all the times when we were pretty much all living together :), and they can't believe how close we all are, and that my cousins are some of my best friends. They hardly know their aunts, uncles and cousins, and I could not imagine my life without them. And even though we are all spread out now I feel that i can always come to any of you and my relationship with everyone will never change, and I feel that my boys will have that too. Maybe not as much quantity time, but I know that they will always know how much they are loved by all of you. I feel incredibly blessed to have been raised by and with my entire family. I love you all and miss you greatly.
As one of the 'outsiders' in this family I would have to say that this family is definitely unique (in a good way...LOL).
My family is not close so all the togetherness was an adjustment. Erika could not believe she had cousins (from my side of the family) that lived in our own town and went to school with her. She had never even met them before I told her that there wer 6 of them in Monroe!
The adjustment is one that I have thoroughly enjoyed and loved. Now that we are a little more spread out I miss the family get togethers, the laughter and the time spent together. That is what family means to me and the times we have had and do have together mean the world to me.
I love you all and miss you!
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