Family Reunion

I have a family reunion today and I am not at it. I haven't been to one of these regularly annualized events in... um... well... 20+ years. I am in my mid-40's and being generous with the time interval. Its not that I don't want to go at all. I am just blogging about not going because this is what we do these days. I actually would LOVE to go.

But I am stuck by a circumstance where I am forced to consider a pet cat of 18 yrs that is in serious need of constant attention. Actually, it is more than one circimstance. Thanks to rightwingnutwacko socio-economic-politics, I am STILL unemployed. My husband and two young children have headed off to a close relation's wedding and I am stuck here with the cat.

Back to the reunion. These reunions don't even have my own last name on them... and I am the rare female that actually KEEPS her (father's) own last name when she gets married!

I HAD to go to these things before college. There I was, in the North Country NY, living with my freaking parents! And yet, I always loved them. Right now, I write to you (whatever fools are reading) back in my old home area after 20 years of trying desperately to escape!

I have already gotten back in touch with so many of my extensive, interesting, and diverse family that I really don't need the grand reunion. It would be fun and I miss it, but I am so much more grateful for the family I have re-connected with anyway.

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE is what I feel from so many of my family. That is what is important. Because, you take the good, you take the bad... or even, for better or for worse...