One of my favorite cousins lives 90 minutes away. We have lots in common (including we both homeschool), we always enjoy being together, but being the busy creatures we are, we will go years without seeing each other.
This week her mother (my aunt) and sister (my other favorite cousin) are visiting from Wisconsin. I wanted to go see them, and I wanted to take Czarina and Hoodie Girl with me.
They were not too sure, so I mentioned that my cousin has 3 teenage boys.
“Are they cute?” they wanted to know.
Then I threw in the pièce de résistance. “If you stay home, you will have schoolwork to do. If you come with me, you will not have schoolwork today.”
C. has 5 kids; 2 girls ages 19 and 10, and 3 boys ages 13, 13 (twins), and 16.
P. has 4 kids, but two are adults, so she brought her 10 year old twin daughters.
And then there was Aunt K., who is my mom’s sister. So there were 13 of us all together.
I had a great time, being among kindred spirits. My girls hung out with the boys, playing Rock Band and Wii, and having lunch together. At one point the 19 year old was installing Rosetta Stone Spanish on the computer, and then showing her 16 year old brother how it works, and how to set up a schedule to complete it within a school year. Before we left, my girls said several times, “Now you have to come visit us!”
We got in the van to come home, and Czarina said, “They are so nice. NOBODY is that nice!”
They are. C’s boys are wonderful young men. And my girls have three more friends for Facebook.
2 comments:
I don't mean to imply that my cousin's girls are not wonderful also. It's just that being 10, 10, 10 and 19, they didn't interact much with my girls.
I loved having cousins a couple of hours away when I was growing up. Your kids were sure blessed by this visit!
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