"Look Up"
This group probably has no idea how I look up to each of them and the challenges they have endured or overcome to land where they are today. They are my incredible siblings and cousins. Divorces, special needs children, teenagers, medical and law schools and the subsequent loans, psychological issues, gay and lesbian acceptance, master's degrees, marriages, miscarriages, layoffs, furloughs, 15 children and four stepchildren, a life ending and changing car accident, the absence of one of us from a tragic death, successful businesses, political activists, caring for aging and ailing parents, waking up and going forward on days when you just don't think you can. Never settling, always reflecting, always growing. Looking up to our own parents for advice and models, realizing we need to be that for our own children.
I have to say that Facebook has been great if for no other reason than to see my "NC family," regardless of where they live now, every day. It lessens the miles and grows the connections and has helped us to get to to know each other as adults. I look up to each of them for the challenges they have faced, whether by choice or not, and the ways they have grown and endured. It will be up to us to carry on Grandma's dream...I know we can do it! Peace and love xoxo.
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