Our daughter will fly in late Friday evening. She will fly out early Sunday morning. She will spend the day Saturday with her good friend who has some serious illness in her family. We will not see much of her but enough to catch up. Then Saturday night late, our oldest grandson will drive in from Illinois. He will stay til Thursday. He will spend a lot of time with his old friend, not as much a when he lived here but to get caught up. We haven't seen her since Christmas, him, well its been a couple of years or so. I never dreamed my family would be so spread out. one to the east everyone else to the west. I was never more than 100 miles from my family except for the short period of time my sister went to Nashville for her husband to go to school in the summer only and then to Detroit for more schooling. I thought when she left with the two children who we loved so much, that my world had ended. We didn't fly, too far to drive and one just didn't pick up the telephone and call for no reason at all, not unless there was an emergency. But she wasn't gone long enough to get behind. So we never had to catch up.
Today we don't pay for individual phone calls. we have email which we use with great regularity and even have video camera on the computer so we can see them if we wish. then of course there is facebook and twitter (although I only just discovered blogging and know nothing about twitter). If you think of it we have more communication with family now than we did when they lived with us,
Just this past week we found my husband's second cousin on facebook. No contact in perhaps 20 years, and we caught up Probably won't correspond anymore, but the important thing was we caught up. It takes a long time to get behind but not long at all to catch up.
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