More Relatives Needed

[primsong]

One thing about having a smallish number of relatives is every time we get together for a major holiday (I'm looking at *you* coming up, Thanksgving) it always feels like there really ought to be more people around, like a poorly attended party even though everyone invited showed up.   You know it's a bit pathetic when you try to have a board game going and if a couple people wander off to the kitchen or something you no longer have enough people to play.  :-p 

My eldest says she hopes she will get to marry a man who has a HUGE family so she can finally enjoy the chaos that comes with lots of cousins and aunties and so on at a holiday gathering.

Oh well. Back to buying the small ham and and teeny turkey for now.  Hope your own holiday plans are going well!

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[elij_0650]

As a child I had a large extended family and we got together for most holidays. It was fun but as I grew up and helped cater for 20-25 people, often away from home (at the family beach house) and at times when all shops were closed for public holidays, it became a trial.

Now the family members are all dead or dispersed around the world so my child doesn't have either good or bad memories to recall. We now get together with our 'chosen family' who are my friends and their children which is much less stressful.

Which is a round about way of saying be thankful for what you have, even if it doesn't fit into the stereotypical image sold to you by mainstream media.