Family Ties

I guess I should also say, following up on my previous post, that my life has been by no means bad.  I have nice parents and good friends and a best friend who I love to death and share everything with.  And my extended family is pretty great.  On big holidays, like Christmas and Easter we have big family parties and there’s always amazing food and fun traditions that I treasure with all my heart.  For example, on Christmas Eve, we have a really fancy party at my Aunt Kris’ house and everyone gets dressed up in nice dresses and suits and we have a gift exchange and my Aunt Kris makes roast beef, which I never eat because I hate meat, but the rest of my family really enjoys.  And my Aunt Sherry makes this amazing array of the most fabulous Christmas cookies ever that are quite possibly the most delicious things in the world.  I mean she makes like fifteen different kinds alone and then at least twenty of each kind.  Which is probably a good thing because I have a pretty big family (four sisters and their husbands and then eleven immediate cousins plus more extended family like my deceased uncle’s brother Larry and his wife Cindy and then my cousins’ wives and their kids…so it’s big).  Anyways, even though my life is kind of boring thus far, I still intensely value certain aspects of it.