This weekend we had a wonderful trip planned. I had been looking forward to it since I first got the invitation back in June. See my cousin Dana had recently married in Michigan and there was going to be a Minnesota reception for him and his new wife. This special event was combined with a landmark event–the 60th wedding anniversary of my grandma’s sister Betty and her husband (my grandparents will have been married for 63 years this year!). Or as Avril would put it, “grandma’s sister’s graduation for 20,000 years.”
See Proeun and I are really big on family, not because family is perfect but because it’s so fun. So this was an opportunity to see family I hadn’t see in forever.
This was especially meaningful to me since I now have my own family. Many of the family hadn’t met my youngest children and some hadn’t met my husband. So now we had the opportunity to get caught up. Such a blessing! I kept hearing “I didn’t know you had so many children” and “you’ve been busy since I saw you last.”
I talked my grandma Betty and we mused about how fast the years pass. See this week Proeun and I will have been married for 8 years. We have changed so much in that time and grown so much and now our dreams are coming true. What a blessing truly.
We looked at farms down there and dreamed a bit more anticipating the next step in our journey that will hopefully bring us a little land of our own.
The highlight of our trip though was seeing my cousin Stacy. We went to high school together and now she has her first child, just 11 days old.
I don’t mean to sound so gushy but I am so thankful for the life and passion we have. As I wrote in our CSA newsletter our work and life is about “slowing things down, honoring our ancestors, enjoying our children, giving back to the land and eating some really good food along the way,” all of which we got to do this weekend.