31 Gifts ~ Day Fifteen

Day Fifteen ~ Family

 

Of both kith and kin, I speak. 

 

This Thanksgiving, we hosted a small gathering of family and friends, three of them: my cousin, his girlfriend and our friend!  Our guests arrived before 1PM and didn’t leave until about noon the next day!!!  Yep, we had a sleepover!  After a day of eating, drinking, talking, watching “White Christmas” and “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”, we retired: us to our bed, my cousin & girlfriend brought an air mattress and we made a nice little nest for our friend (good thing we hung on to the egg crate mattress pad and down comforter!). 

 

We walked a couple blocks for breakfast the next morning and then Chris and I watched Hushpuppy, my cousin’s daughter, so he could shop for a suit.  Our friend was back later that day, and again Saturday, to eat leftovers. 

 

That’s what it’s about ~ the gathering together of those within your sphere of love.  We don’t yet know what Yule, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve will bring, but we will approach it with open hearts, arms and home.

“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more… secure.” – Jim Butcher

 

“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.” – David Ogden Stiers

 

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” – Jane Howard

 

“I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.”– Barbara Bush