Sunday, April 08, 2007

Cous-aunt

I don't think I've ever spent a major holiday away from home, at least none of the major holiday involving large feasts and lots of family (I have a huge exteneded family). So I was really excited when my Aunt called to tell me that she and her family would be in Maryland visiting her husband's side of the family and I was welcome to Easter dinner.

So after Easter Mass, they picked me up, I had lunch with my little cousins Michelle and Robert who love sushi (how a 7 year old boy doesn't like potatoes but lives for sushi is beyond me), visited the National Cathedral, visited the cherry blossoms at the Jefferson Memorial, and headed over to Maryland for a traditional ham and roast beef Easter dinner with all the fixings. It was a wonderful dinner and I realized how much I missed quaint suburban life.

Though I got to sit at the "adult table" with wine, the best part of the day was still spending some time with my little cousins, ages 7 and 9. Being the oldest cousin on both sides of the family where most of my cousins are at least a decade younger than me has created a different dynamic than most people and their cousins. Heck, when they have pictures of all the cousins on my mom's side, they don't even include my brother and I even more because we would just throw the proportions of the picture way off. I don't have the kind of peer-relationship bond with them but I've just embraced the fact that I'm their cousin but also like their aunt. So assuming aunt duties, I made them little Easter basket/bags and told them why all the cool kids go to college.

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