My brother and his family have been out of the country for 3 years and just got into town to visit this past Tuesday. He and his wife are both Marines and while stationed across the world, they blessed our family with our first baby, a little girl, who is our perfect bundle of perfection. My first niece.
We are all meeting her for the first time and soaking up every cuddle, beso, hug, laugh, sing-a-long, tear, all of it, because on Monday they will be picking up and leaving again. On top of that we are all soaking up the fact that this is the first time the 5 siblings have all been in the same place, under the same roof, at one time in four years!!
Time is precious, choose who you spend it with and what you spend it doing very wisely, once you turn 18 it’s like the years just start whizzing by, suddenly you blink and you’re 32. Thats something my daddy used to tell me before I turned 18, back when I didn’t understand how valuable time was.
My family means everything to me. We haven’t all been together for the past 4 years. The last time my siblings (there are 5 of us) , my dad, and myself were all together, was when my oldest sister got married. A lot has transpired in 4 years. My oldest sister graduated PA school, Micah and his wife had our first niece while in Japan and now is expecting our first nephew, I finished OT school, my brother Noah moved to the coast with his wife, my little sister got Married, and now has a baby on the way, we lost my uncle last December, life is filled to the brim with full accomplishments and sweet little blessings, and even moments of tragedy.
I always put my family first. I do that because of something else my dad used to tell me, family is everything, and when things get tough in life, the only ones you have to truly rely on, are your family, and he’s right about that, too. I can always count on my family, and they can always count on me, and maybe that’s not true for every family, but I think because of the way we were raised, to stick together like a pack, it is true for us.
So this weekend I chose to value and cherish the time I have with my family, because as we get older I know moments like this are going to be few and far between, and it could be another four years before we are all in the same place again, hopefully Im wrong about that, but you just never know in this life. Nothing is ever a guarantee.
I hope you all have a really good rest of your evening spending it doing something that you love and with people that you love, and I’d thats not the case I hope after reading this post you make some changes, after all, life is too short to spend it with people and doing things that make us miserable!
All my love,
xoxo
M.
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