A while back I made the comment that I was trying to spend some time with extended family members outside of funeral homes. This past weekend I was finally able to do just that.

Somehow, the entire thing was planned over Facebook as every one of us (with the exception of my mother) is a member. Mom? She just showed up when and where I told her to. That’s just how she rolls…

This has happened more frequently with me, planning entire events over email or Facebook and I’m not totally sure how I feel about it. It worked and it was convenient but is it less personal? I don’t know. I DO know that my once lovely handwriting now sucks because I type everything. Sadness.

Regardless, I have all these wonderful woman who are my cousins. Funny, intelligent, beautiful women and we really had a wonderful time. We went out to lunch and ended up sitting and chatting for hours. It was nice that, even though we really haven’t spent much time together in the past 15 years or so (wow… that’s terrible…) we still had some idea what was going on in each others’ lives and so the conversation flowed easily.

From lunch we went to Bath Junkie and had a blast mixing scents and scrubs and lotions of our very own. I may be addicted to that place…

What we did wasn’t really the point though. It was that we did it. And I truly hope that everyone enjoyed it as much as I did. Mom and I agreed ahead of time it would be a good plan to avoid any discussions of politics (due to our rampant liberalism and their collective conservatism.) She also mentioned that I may want to keep my personal views on religion to myself since we were trying to build relationships and not prayer requests for heathen and lost souls. I agreed and we had a blast.

Here’s hoping that family get-togethers become a somewhat regular thing. I genuinely LIKE these people. Being related is just icing on the cake, right?