Well as sappy as I get anyway. So I was really sick yesterday and that made me a little nostalgic and homesick. I really just wanted to curl up in mom's bed and sleep all day. But I did my duties the best I could. Today I'm much better, thanks for asking, but I just wanted to post these thoughts.
I know I have said this before, but this experience has made me appreciate my family a lot more, and on the scale of appreciating families I was already pretty up there. You see, my family is cool. I'm not just talking about Mom, Dad, Sister here. I have had two grandmothers live in my house, one who :) is still there. Aunt Mel also lived with us for a time, and my family, though they live hours away, has always made the effort to be there for holidays, important occasions, and at times, just because we haven't seen each other in a while. In my opinion, this is very rare for a typical American family, and is becoming increasingly rare around the world, especially in westernized cultures.
We have been to visit the family once while I've been here in Cuernavaca. The funny thing is, they complain about going to Mexico City (an hour drive with maybe an hour or two of traffic) when we often drove 6 hours to get to New Hampshire (ok, usually the NH people drove the hours), but the family from Mexico City won't even come down for birthday parties in Cuernavaca. It's just a very different philosophy, one that I think many people have, but I am not accustomed to.
Also, I have so many people in my life I call family or consider family who are not blood related. The many other mothers I have and the amount of people who care about me and how I am is overwhelming seeing how little people these kids are surrounded with. They have their parents and Amelia and the occasional au pair, and that's it. In a way I guess it works, but it's just so sad to mae because I know how great it can be to have all those other people there for you. You feel safe, because there will always be someone there.
So I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for making family important in our lives. If you don't realize how special that is, then at least it is there for you to take for granted. But really, our family is special. And I didn't even need to leave to know that, I just had to leave to know I'd miss it so much. But then I also miss my piano terribly...
Love,
Jenn
17 years ago
1 comment:
Sappy? A bit...but heartfelt for sure. I was going to blame the "demise" of families on the fact that they are increasingly spread out, but your example of having family an hour away in Mexico City and not being able to drive to visit kind of shoots that one down. With all the communcation devices at our hands (cell phones, text, IM, blogs), it should be that families are closer than ever, but that's not always the case. Keep up with the sappy, your "family" loves it. Oh, and I dig the new look on the blog.
Tio Scott
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