sister mary, quite contrary
HA! So, I guess no news is good news when it comes to my family.
I sent my cousin a congrats on his wife's pregnancy. The rotten thing is, his mom (my aunt) has stomach cancer, but I didn't want to mention that. Is that wrong? I mean, I'm trying to focus on the good instead of the might-be-deadly. His sister is also preggers, again.
His dad is the one coordinating this mess of cleaning out Gram's apartment.
Talk about a horribly strange month for my uncle. Guess what? You're going to be a grandfather again, twice in September! Oh, and by the way, your mom's belongings have to be disposed of, because she's never going home. And, your wife has cancer. Oh, and happy birthday too.
What the hell. We're all getting old.
I keep messing up the ages of my mom and her siblings... if I finally got it right, their ages are 58, 62, 64, and 66.
My cousins on that side are all varied, but the youngest is 22. The oldest, if I remember right, is 44, which is ultimately strange to me. He can't be that old.
My first cousins once removed (the cousin's kids) are between 18 months and somewhere in high school. Tommy has got to be a teenager by now, Ashley is probably a senior, and Emma is about 7 or 8. Z is only 18 months or so.
I know, I went on a tangent...
While I'm at it, I might as well think about the other side...
My dad is 60, his oldest brother would've been 66, and the other brother is somewhere in between. My cousins there lie somewhere between the ages of 47 and 26. And the 19 first cousins once removed... or more, since that count was ages ago... range in age from COLLEGE to ... well, I think 10ish, judging by photos. Those guys were good at procreating. Each of my dad's brothers had lots of kids... 5 or 6 apiece, and it seemed like most of them also had large broods, usually of 3 or more.
It scares me that some of those kids are now in college. *shudder* Thankfully, I dont even know most of their names, or faces, so if I ran into them, I wouldn't know.