Long lost relatives...

[moosmom]

What I find really amazing is when I was in upstate NY years ago visiting them, cousin Susie (she's actually my Dad's cousin's wife not aunt) said she was bowled over at how much alike my cousin Kathy (her daughter) and I are. She kept saying that we were made from the same mold.

I never knew there was another person on this earth like me!

[moosmom]

This has got to be family week!!! I just got an email from my cousin Maryanne in NM telling me her mom passed away this past April and my uncle Tom (her Dad) died a year before that.

I was on the phone with her for over an hour talking about our families. It was wonderful. Her older brother Tom has been married for 45 years and has 8 grandkids!!! That just feels SOO weird considering it was only yesterday that we were kids, talking about how we were both going to become nurses.

I'm still trying to figure out why all of a sudden I'm being put in touch with so many relatives I haven't spoken to in years. Is it a sign? I don't know.

I called Maryanne back and asked her for her address so I could send her our grandmother's rosary beads. She said she had kept a letter our grandmother wrote to her just before she died. I thought it would be nice for her to have something of hers. My uncle Tom and his family were never close. But why should his kids not have something of their heritage?

This is just SOOOOOO weird. I wish God would give me a sign as to why this is all happening. LES here. But they're tears of joy, not sadness.