Absence

The truth why I haven’t posted here, is that nothing has felt quite right for a really long time. Nothing felt interesting or even worth writing about. I know now that that is simply not true. Writing about my kids and their lives are interesting, to a select few, I understand. It is a chronicle of their growing up, and no matter how much I think it inconsequential, it is fun to look back on when they are older. To reminisce and cry over how much they have grown. So, I am back. Some days I will be kicking and screaming, but no matter, the chronicling must go on. Last night my niece Jillian sent a video message to us (she isn't 2 yet, so I guess she didn't really send it). She was in the tub and her parents were asking her who was her best friend. She said Wy-Wy. It made us all teary eyed. Brett and I want nothing more than for our kids to be close with their cousins. To love and laugh with one another and build strong bonds and a sense of unfaltering family ties, which, lets be honest, is pretty challenging when you live in another state. The fact that friendship can grow over those 272 miles across the Arizona/California desert between an almost- two-year old and a 5 year old is proof that distance isn't a death sentence, but a hurdle easily cleared by love.