The Holidays always make me nostalgic--- I suppose everyone gets that way. Yesterday I was remembering the Thanksgivings of my childhood. We always went to Charlotte to have a big family get-together at my cousin Wendell's house. All of the cousins, aunts, and uncles would come... There was always a TON of food and a TON of kids. It was a good time. We used to have a lot of big family gatherings back then. Those are the best memories I have of growing up. Now the family has fragmented and moved on. The old generation of Matriarchs/Patriarchs have all died. My Mom's generation has grown tired of travel, and my generation have scattered and have no money/time to organize such events. My children do not know most of their cousins. They won't have the memories that I have. It is too bad really. There are a HUGE amount of children around the same age that could/should be growing up together-- getting into trouble and making memories. It is really a shame. Two years ago we had a big family cookout at my cousin Bryan's house, and it was very very fun, but it didn't last long enough. Last summer my cousin Bryan and I batted around ideas for a reunion weekend, but it never got off the ground.... Maybe we will try again next summer... I think that it would be so much fun to have a beach reunion like we did when I was a kid--- all go in together to rent a house-- pile in and just chill. Of course my memories of those beach reunions were simply filled with playing and swimming with my cousins--- not of the money spent or the work done by the adults.... My perspective of those gatherings may not be so pleasant had I been one of the adults watching all of those kids! :) Still, I think it would be fun and worth the effort. I enjoy being around a lot of kids playing and running amok--- as long as they are not in MY house... :)
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