reuniting

We are off to New Jersey tomorrow for a week of family reunion.  I'm here blogging partly because I am putting off packing my suitcase.

This particular reunion is being expanded to include cousins and friends of family, and who knows how many will show up?  The hard part of this reunion will be that it will the first since the death of our brother Ronnie.  That will take some adjustment.

People tell me how lucky our family is to make it a point of staying close.  I guess, when I think about it, that it's kind of amazing that we all like each other.  I feel bad for people who are estranged from their family members, they are missing a lot.

OK OK, I know..  The suitcase isn't going to pack itself.  I'm outta here.