My dad comes from a large family. True there are larger ones to be found but family gatherings have become somewhat zooish in recent years. My grandmother is mother of ten, grandmother of eighteen, and great-grandmother of four - with two more grandkids and one great-grandkid on expected to arrive in 2006. She is an amazing women about which I could write much; but this post is about two of her sons. The identical uncles.
Tonight gifts were passed out by one of my aunts. Her three year old daughter was helping. The following exchange was witnessed by a lucky few who were not otherwise involved in family hub-bub:
"Give this is Uncle David." were her mother's instructions as she handed the child a gift.
My cousin walked confidently up to her Uncle and handed it to him excitedly, "Here you go Uncle David."
"This is for the other Uncle David." responded Uncle Mike with a smirk.
She proceeded to find "the other Uncle David" and present him with his Christmas gift. The Uncle Mike look-a-like took Uncle David's gift sending my cousin back to her mother near the Christmas tree befuddled.
All of my small cousins, ranging in age from seven to one year, have for most of their small lives struggled to tell the difference between Uncle David and Uncle Mike. The adorable demonstrations of this quandary are abundant at family get-togethers as they all try to sort out which uncle is which. The above is only just one from today's family time. Mike and David, both "egg-em-on" types, do everything afforded to them by their adult power to complicate the confusion. Some day, when one of the young cousins comprehends the concept of twins (oddly enough, even though our family is huge, there are no multiple births) I would hate to miss the day it is explained that Uncle David and Uncle Mike are not identical uncles.
Back in college, in 2004 when blogging was hardly even a thing yet, I was here. Blogging before blogging meant anything to anyone. You can look in the archives for my past writings, but it was much more like a journal in the past. When we started fundraising, I messed around with the idea of launching something new for this new phase of our journey but actually hated that idea. I am a sum of all of my life and so much of it is here already. So I'm keeping it here. At least for now.
My main focus these days is blogging about our newest journey into the bizarre and wonderful world of gestational surrogacy. Posts dated 2013 and forward will trend heavily toward that journey. I don't promise everything I write will be about though. There might be other things that sneak in occasionally.
Please come along our journey with us. As the saying goes, "The more, the merrier!"
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