ever since i had kids, i always thought that my boys would grow up with their cousins. my siblings are all very close, and so i just thought that's how it would always be. my older sister has 6 kids, and the cousins all love each other so much. when they lived in NH, we spent a lot of time together. me and erika would have coffee and the kids would all play together. could life get any better? well, it's been one year and one day since my sister and her family moved to virginia. we recently got to spend a few days with them, but i am really looking forward to heaven when we can be together all the time!! (with no guilt over the food we're eating! ha!)
caleb and riley have always been close, and it is unreal how alike they look! don't you think they could pass as brothers??
even though we don't live close anymore, i am so thankful for the relationship we still have with each other. i do not go for more than a couple days without talking to all of them. i know that my parents really instilled in us the importance of keeping our relationships strong...i am so glad they did!
:( glad we know the big picture
ReplyDeletePraying that our kids will stay close after they are married and have children. If not physically close ... praying they stay emotionally close. But ... I would sure LOVE to have some of them raise their families close enough so that we could be involved in their daily lives. It would be so sad for us to have our grandkids spread all over the country/world.
ReplyDeleteNone of our Big Kids are married yet. But ... we are expecting 4 weddings in the next 2 years. Yikes!!! (And, it looks like maybe only 1 of them might settle in the same state that we live in. Hard.)
Laurel