What can I say..

We had a crisis in our family this week. My family is close, but not close at all. One side of the family lives in a close enough proximity that you would think that they would be closer. That there would be get togethers etc. but they are all a little anti social and a little closed off. Then there is the other side of the family. Some how we don't see each other for years or sometimes talk for years but when we do there is a connection, there is a love because the fact that we don't see each other or that we don't talk doesn't matter. What matters is that we are blood, we are family and we pick up where we left off. We don't have to see each other all the time, talk all the time to know that we love one another. 

When I was a little girl I spent some significant time with three boys who were the closest that I ever had to brothers. Eric, Josh, and Chad. I have some really great memories with my cousins that I will never forget. This week my aunt Lori, their mother, had a brain anuerism and passed away suddenly. My heart is breaking for them. They are younger then me. There mom was young. It's all surreal. My uncle Kenny adored his wife and now is trying to figure out how he is going to get through this and learn to live life without his soulmate. I talked to them tonight for the first time in years. I told him that I was sorry that something like this had to prompt me to call. It was good to hear his voice, to be able to hear him talk about my aunt and the love that he had for her. It's weird to have something so tragic happen in your family and to be so far away from it all. I wish I could be there to hear their stories about her, to hug them, and support them as they grieve. As you can imagine this was sudden and unexpected. Please pray for my family, especially my uncle and his boys.