Thanks. My father still manages to keep busy at lots of tasks, and that's a big help.
We're a pretty close family on my father's side (my mother was an only child, and I don't know any of the extended family well on that side), and that's an incredible benefit I didn't appreciate for quite a while. Besides this uncle and his family living in the same small town as my family, we lived next door to my grandparents and had another set of first cousins living on the same block for a few years. (They later moved out of state.) Then there was lots of contact with some third cousins, and first cousins-once-removed, and more. When I consider some friends who don't know *any* of their cousins, or only a few first cousins, I marvel at how lucky I am.
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Re: I'm sorry
Date: 2004-09-04 02:44 am (UTC)We're a pretty close family on my father's side (my mother was an only child, and I don't know any of the extended family well on that side), and that's an incredible benefit I didn't appreciate for quite a while. Besides this uncle and his family living in the same small town as my family, we lived next door to my grandparents and had another set of first cousins living on the same block for a few years. (They later moved out of state.) Then there was lots of contact with some third cousins, and first cousins-once-removed, and more. When I consider some friends who don't know *any* of their cousins, or only a few first cousins, I marvel at how lucky I am.