Yeah that is one of my favorite sayings. So today I saw a post on facebook posted by a member of Cassie's family. It was a very sentimental, tear provoking video of a family who asked people to write something for their baby's first birthday. They tucked all the letters away and gave them to the baby when she turned 18. The part from the family member said "if our family ever has another baby...." Wait...what? Cassie's baby is due in January. My heart broke for Cassie and Cassie's children. All four of them. I'm just getting used to having a broken heart I guess.
I understood today why Cassie lives in Indiana. Maybe I understood part of it before since I feel a lot of what she may feel in regards to the littles. Cassie has family in Indiana. And it might be tumultuous at times, but they accepted her right in. I will probably never understand every thing about her moving, but today I got some of it. If you are looking for family and your "family" isn't very welcoming, sometimes you have to go make a new family.
I already know how far out of sight, out of mind the littles are for the family that lives here. I've had seven years of no contact no matter what I try and do to keep them connected to their cousins and aunts and uncles. If Nita isn't here, they are completely disregarded. And we just live our life. The littles don't know what they are missing because they didn't have it.
Family can be hard. And I'm sorry that Cassie had to go away to find one that accepts her. I'm sad that the five of us were not enough to keep her here, but we can't compete against David. And we wouldn't. She is never out of sight, out of mind for us. She is part of our family whether she lives there or here. Along with David, Jazzlynn and the baby coming.
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