I love the potential consistency of family. Lol my cousins are thinking of rallying together in a family FaceTime session.  This is a sort of virtual reunion.  We all used to lean on grandma for news of each other.  So spread out across the country. Hardly able to have a cup of tea together.. yet here we go.  About to share tea on FaceTime.  Not today, but almost.
      Karen and I have spent a bit of time together and are wondering , is this scary for the others?  Does the specter of our youth cloud our image of who we are today?  I think there was a bit of that while setting up a call between Karen StG and I a few months ago, but that quickly passed.
      I loved visiting Maine as a kid to see the cousins, aunts and uncles. And Minnesota to see cousin Karen, Doug and Becky.  Uncle Don and aunt Daphen. They were the closest to Michigan so we did a few more things together.
       My cousins are amazing. We are all getting on but the kids are coming up too in their own unique ways.
More to come.  We started compiling a current day family tree just to see who we are missing.  Sad to think Doug has been gone for years and families have split up, mom is the last girl standing in her generation.  The grand dame at 97.  Next is finding and looking up the renegades through ancestry . Com  now that will be interesting.