extended family
June 23, 2013 § 2 Comments
This summer has been marked with friendship, my children’s and my own; the shadows of those we love filling our doorway and leaving smiles after goodbyes. Tonight we will gather friends who are family into our home. Unofficial grandparent figures who in moments of orphaned uncertainty, spontaneous celebrations, even mundane misadventures lend us the comfort of family.
These special souls are cornerstones in our children’s community, neighbors whose presence serve as silent reminders of days past. For one couple their home carries memories of my husband at our children’s ages, his stories and our children’s overlapping like seams of wallpaper. Further down the street and just around a corner lives another couple, compassionate souls who gift us acceptance despite complicated experiences. They know us in a rare and eclectic gathering of memories, one half simultaneously educator and friend. They are a home to which you find yourself knocking for a temporary distraction because there is something reassuring in their steadfast kindness.
Today while I plan for the evening ahead, I am thinking of the years of shared moments between our homes and giving thanks for family born of friendship.
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Life’s good 🙂
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