Feeling Nostalgic

I Love this picture! Me taking time to smell the roses.

Me catching some rays

Me & cousin Lori

My cousins Anthony, Mark, Lori, Sherri-Lynn, me and Barbara


My 3rd Birthday party & lots of family to celebrate (I'm the short one near the cake)

Me & my Daddy




I caught up with my cousin Lisa this morning. She lives way back east and I'm in the west. We are a whole country apart. It was so nice talking to her. I felt nostalgic, we both wished we all could be closer. We talked about how nice it was growing up, to be surrounded by cousins and Aunts and Uncles. My Dad was one of 5 brothers and 2 sisters. I think all together there was around 16 kids, not that all of us were near the same age. Half of us were close in age. We all saw each other so often, Birthdays, Holidays and lots of in between. For the girls, we had another cousin that owned a Dance Studio and we would take dance lessons together. We were in a couple of recitals. I wonder if "family" still exists? Or are we as a nation becoming to busy to get together with family? I know we make time for our immediate families but how about the rest of the "family"? Someday I'd love to have or be a part of organizing a family reunion, maybe within the next couple of years if everybody may be willing. It would be so nice to see the cousins and their children! My Mom and Lisa's are the only Aunts left sadly. All of the brothers have passed. I think about how my children don't know what it's like to be surrounded by Aunts & Uncles and lots of cousins. It would be nice to introduce them to the family. Thinking about family I thought it would be fun to post some old pictures. I actually had to take pictures of these pictures, they came out pretty good considering they were all taken back in the 60's.