This past weekend, my wife, and I along with Zyan got to spend an entire weekend with my wife’s cousins from out of town. What followed were hours of laughter, sharing of stories, moments, laying a deeper foundation for our children to experience our larger family, and creating new opportunities to visit each other and further deepen these bonds. The time went quickly as it always does when its with people you want to be around, and it warmed my heart to see the kids take to their aunts as if it was the most natural thing in the world.
Its times like these that become the memories we relish and discuss over and over again, cementing them into to this beautiful web called family. It also ends being a weekend that ends far too soon, and there is a pang of regret that it took so long for this to happen. As I get older, and I am around Zyan, I want him to have the same endearing relationships I have with my own cousins, after all, they end up being our first close friends, then ones we share intimate thoughts with as we figure out our lives.
I still cherish the summers I got with my cousins when the whole house filled up, and where we all wanted to sleep in the same room, the mattresses and bed sheets spread throughout the living room as we stayed up late being silly, and just enjoying each others company. This weekend, I had the adult version of that, and its still as much as fun as I remember the times as a child.
I guess when you really want to be around the ones you care about, not much can stand in the way of that. Happy Monday!
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