On Slacking...

In my blogging break, it's been full of time with my family. We're making up for 5 months here.

I think it's always interesting coming back to a place after living someplace else because you get to see the ways you've changed since you left and how the place has changed, too.

My graduation party yesterday was fantastic. My dad and his girlfriend really put a lot of work into it with planning food and decorations, and both of my parents invited people. Most of my family from both sides came yesterday, which really made it awesome. I got to catch up with a lot of the family I haven't gotten to talk to in a long time.

Saturday was the first time in years that the whole family has been back to this house (it used to be my grandparents', and we used to have family dinners here on Sundays), and it was fun to reflect on how much the cousins and I have grown up since the last time we were all here playing together.

Yeah, that reconnecting definitely has been my favorite part about this blogging absence. I missed my family like crazy.

~"The family -- the dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to." [-Dodie Smith]~