ABC Tag

Here's my try Liz.
ABC Tag.

A - Available or taken: Very taken
B - Best friend: My loving hubby!!
C - Cake or pie: I will always take cake first. YUM!!
D - Drink of choice: Water with lots of ice
E - Essential item you use everyday: my new smartphone, how did I live without it?
F - Favorite color: Has always been blue - any shade will do but I love dark blues.
G - Gummy bears or worms: Can't stand either.
H - Hometown: Born in San Luis Obispo, but spent ages 12-22 in Fresno, where my family is.
I - Indulgence: shopping, shopping and more shopping!!
J - January or February: I like them both - My wedding ann. is in Jan. but our first date ann. in Feb. 14. But Liz is right - more days off in Feb!!!
K - Kids & names: Christian, Sebastian and Alexander - Yes, they all have 9 letter names..
L - Life is incomplete without? My noisy messy family
M - Marriage date: Jan. 14, 1995
N - Number of siblings: 2 younger sisters
O - Oranges or apples: oranges - very cold if possible
P - Phobias or fears: something happening to any of my family members
Q - Fave quote: "This is true love - you think this happens every day?"
R - Reason to smile: All of my blessings
S - Season: I love Winter for the warm clothes, but Summer for the no school!
T - Tag 3 or 4 people: Andrea, Tracy & Eugenia
U - Unknown fact about me: I can't think of one.
V- Vegetable you don't like: The ones that taste icky - cauliflower. YUCK!!
W - Worst habit: disorganization. I am working on it though!!
X - Xrays: My knees - about 6 years ago.
Y - Your fave food: Pasta, pasta, pasta!!
Z - Zodiac sign: Pisces

That was fun!!

Family

Recent events have made me think more about family. While at my uncle's service I was watching my extended family. I thought about how close I was to the ones that I saw a lot when I was growing up and how little I know of the lives of those that I only see at funerals and weddings. Since my mom is the baby and 10 years younger than her next youngest sister, my cousins were mostly pre-teen and teenagers when we were born. So we went on their dates with the ones that lived nearby and were treated like younger siblings. Growing up, I aways knew that I would be able to sit down with any of them and catch up in an instant. Their children went on my dates and were in my wedding. Even now, though I only see them for holidays and when we visit my family, I know that they will be there and already know everything I have done since the last time I saw them (this is because of the amount of time our moms talk). I realized what a great comfort it was and is to have this relationship with them.
Where I am going with this is - I wonder what kind of relationship my children will have with their cousins when they are adults. Since Randy is an only child, they only have my sisters' 5 kids. And with us living here and the rest of them in Fresno and Selma, they only see eatch other once a month at the most (usually every other month). But they seem to fall into that love/dislike cousin relationship so easily. I feel in my heart that they will always have a special realtionship because my sisters and I make sure that we all spend time together. And I plan to do everything in my power to help them nuture these relationships and to realize how important they are.

Thanks

I just wanted to thank everyone for all the kind emails and posts. We did have another death in out family on Christmas Eve. Randy's uncle passed away. He was supposed to fly to Washington for the funeral, but his mother came down with a cold and worried she wouldn't travel well. So needless to say, Dec. was not a good month for us. But we are doing better.