We Are Family

My blog has taken a backseat to a family movie I've been working on for 3 days. I have the slowest learning curve when it comes to new software. Though, I feel a little better, since I called a cousin who is a film editor and he told me the one I have sucks!
It's family reunion time and I want to have a DVD of the last 2 reunions I taped. We went to the one last year, but only snapped pictures. There's a series of photos where Sonny boy stood with a smooshed facial expression in every picture I took of other family members. It's pretty funny.
I love this family. When I watch the videos it gives me such a sense of history and hope. The babies that have been born the last few years bring new love and energy into our world. Every time I see a pregnant woman, whether it's in my family or not, I get the feeling that life will always move forward in a positive way. When I heard of ailing cousins right around the time of a reunion, I wrote this poem.

Ode to a Cousin's Party

Find time to mingle with good news and bad.

Find in your heart the cheerful and sad.

Take time for each face, each life and each heart,

Time ticks away, and then we depart.

No matter the toil, the miles, the chores,

Family leaves thumb prints deep in memoirs.

Precious our loved ones, funny and dear,

Come share your spirit, your stories, your fear.

We'll all stand together knowing bloodlines are true.

An empty spot in your place will just never do!

When I've lived out of town during my earlier married life, or out of state in my later single years, it always got to me when my mom would tell me she was off to a party for this cousin or that.

Now that I'm a stable married lady, I (hardly ever) miss family events. It's just too important. We are all spread out, so these get-togethers are dear. I secretly pray that any family feuds are soothed over. It's so hard to show allegiance to a loved one when he or she has a bone to pick with someone that I don't...or vice versa. Urrrrr....it reminds that someone unnamed is still doing business with my no - longer - step- someone who was a poo poo head, to say the least, but I digress.

(My sister says I have anger issues.)

So Sunday's the day. Can't wait to see everyone!