A Very Merry Kipmas
The family was together tonight. I love being able to say that, you know? Most of my mom's family settled in the Bluffton area, so we see each other pretty regularly. That's the greatest. But I especially love it when my mom's brother and his family come to town because then we really are "us." I'm the same person regardless of who I'm with, but I just always feel so much more like "me" when we're all "us," if that makes any sense at all. Anyway. We were together tonight for Christmas... or Kipmas, as we like to call it. Which meant fondue for lunch, a flurry of present-opening, and lots of side-splitting laughter. It's like that every year, but I feel like I can appreciate it so much more the older I get and the more things change. Ten years ago, the family Christmas consisted of playing house in the basement with all my cousins' dress-up clothes while everyone else talked upstairs. Now, we're the people talking ups