Family Time

Today I am thankful for how close my family is. I mean I use to think that all families were like mine but as I grew up and met other families I learned that that's not true. There are MANY different types of families and to me that is beautiful and honestly I have many families(school,church, etc..) as well and I love that because no matter where I am, I am always surounded by family I love.

But I am talking about my blood family today. As I said my sister is visiting rigth now from Chicago and so today we had dinner with my cousin and it was a good time. As always!! hahahha The reason I say I'm thankful for how close we all are is because I love the fact that we always make time for each other and we honestly do have each others backs. Everyone had crazy schedules but we all made a little time and canceled some stuff to have this cousin family time together that again, we grew up with. My family raised all of us this way. As I have said in the past my family honestly does not go more than a week without meeting up for something or other and I love that! I know there are people who are not too close with their blood families or cousins and so I am very thankful that we all love each other and love spending time with each other. Now I have A LOT of cousins and I love them all with all my heart! but there is one cousin who my older sister and I have always been a little closer too. His name is Eric. Now all of us cousins are close now that we're older and we hang out together but growing up the older cousins did ther own thing and so my sister, eric and me would always do our own thing together. If you spend enough time with either of us and then meet another one of us, within minutes it is beyond obvious that we grew up together and that we're close hahahhahha we laugh at mostly the same stuff, have the same sense of humor, and compliment each others personalities very well lol.

Family story time! hahahh we (Eric Beni and myself) use to put on little plays for the family during different holidays. The one EVERYONE always remembers is the thanksgiving play we did one year. I was pretty little but i do remember bits and pieces of it. Beni narrated, Eric was the pilgrim and I..................I was the turkey. BUT I WAS THE BEST DANG TURKEY EVER!! lol We use to play ninja turtles hahah aahhh man just had a crazy trip down memory lane! awww I had a good childhood and its mostly thanks to my family and cousins that made it fun cause we always had fun together.

      This is Eric, me, and Beni when we were really REALLY little hahhahah

 CHALLENGE: No matter what kind of family you have, there is someone if not many someones haha in our families that has always been there for us and that we love. Someone that when we look back on memories, they are always part of them and they made us who we are in some ways. Now yes we ALL have those tramatizing fmaily stories that we don't liek to think about as well, but forget those and take this time to think and remember a good time. Appreciate them, and if you dont already do this then maybe try setting up some sort of cousin (or whatever) lunch/dinner thing. Make time for family! :]