Do you remember The White Rose?
To our complete delight, she was able to visit us for a few days this past week. We haven’t seen her since last summer and it was WAY overdue. She and her family have lived in Texas for like four or five years now and we still miss them and resent them leaving us. I just don’t get why they’d want to live in Texas when they could enjoy loveliness similar to this Illinois Winter that has lasted for the last 47 months:
Senseless, really. But, I digress.
The White Rose was here. And it was good.
We all reveled in being around her. Easter services, egg hunts, Rock Band, dEGGorating eggs, coffee shops, and much more were crammed into a few all too short days. She was a people magnet. Everyone congregated at our house to spend some time with The White Rose. Bud expressly came home from school to see his cousin.
It’s an interesting era in these kids’ lives. They are adult — she flew from Texas completely on her own — yet still young enough to be tied very closely to their families. Will that all change in the next few years? College is here, or on the horizon for most of the cousins, and soon after they will be writing their own grown up stories with jobs, and families, and far off places. I still cherish every moment we have together, and every moment my children have with their cousins. We look particularly forward to a Christmas in July with the whole Texas clan!
Oh, and I’m going to put her and Magoo in charge of all baking from now on. She and Magoo made a shweeet cake!
Thanks for brightening our home, girl!!!