Thanksgving at Aunt Cloettes ca 1964.
This one is for you Nic, Ali and Davyd.
I have said it before, but the best thing my parents ever gave me was my five brothers and sisters. I remember once realizing that when I called one sib and no one answered, so I called the next, and the next... and realized I had five instant best friends.
Not that we are alike or that we agree, but we do know each other well. We share our roots and traditions, we chased each other around, we kept each others secrets. As adults we still love to play, to hear each others stories and we trust each other. I can't imagine life without the rhythm of "Nancy, Greg, Eric, Jill, Jay and Kathy."
So, when I think of my children and realize that for all the things I have tried to give them...stable values, vacations in beautiful places, healthy lunches, college education...none are as valuable as giving them each other.
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I LOVE that photo! So true. Just tonight Ari, Shay and Marquetta did a piano- dance -singing -show for me, by lighted pumpkins, as everyone else was gone from home. It is so sweet to watch them giggle and enjoy each other...their tight sisterhood bond is their strength, that held them together in their rocky past and inspires and delights the rest of us to embrace them into our Berlin-Burns family.
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