Kirsten in Canada
Load8: Missing
I thought I would be so fast tonight, but then I got thinking about "missing" and it took me forever to figure out my feelings and articulate what I wanted to say. Super grateful for my uncle who scanned a bunch of family photos a few years ago, they are a gold mine!
Journalling reads:
There are 29 first cousins on my Dad’s side of the family and we were a noisy boisterous bunch. My memories of childhood are packed full of times spent with my extended family: holidays, Sunday dinners, sleepovers, summer visits, many of us were in the same church branch for a number of years. I’m not really close to any of them now, mainly because we don’t live that close, but also with a family that big it’s easy to drift apart. I miss that connectedness. One of my biggest regrets with the life that Darrel and I have built is that we don’t live near our families and our kids don’t have those same close relationships with their cousins. And in fact, I don’t really have close relationships with my siblings either. I don’t think we want it this way, at least I don’t, it’s just that we are busy with our lives, and kids and jobs. But it makes me feel really sad so I should do something different so that I get a different result. The best way to predict the future is to create it, right?!"
Thanks for viewing ladies, and all your support!
Load8: Missing
I thought I would be so fast tonight, but then I got thinking about "missing" and it took me forever to figure out my feelings and articulate what I wanted to say. Super grateful for my uncle who scanned a bunch of family photos a few years ago, they are a gold mine!
Journalling reads:
There are 29 first cousins on my Dad’s side of the family and we were a noisy boisterous bunch. My memories of childhood are packed full of times spent with my extended family: holidays, Sunday dinners, sleepovers, summer visits, many of us were in the same church branch for a number of years. I’m not really close to any of them now, mainly because we don’t live that close, but also with a family that big it’s easy to drift apart. I miss that connectedness. One of my biggest regrets with the life that Darrel and I have built is that we don’t live near our families and our kids don’t have those same close relationships with their cousins. And in fact, I don’t really have close relationships with my siblings either. I don’t think we want it this way, at least I don’t, it’s just that we are busy with our lives, and kids and jobs. But it makes me feel really sad so I should do something different so that I get a different result. The best way to predict the future is to create it, right?!"
Thanks for viewing ladies, and all your support!