My immediate family is small and spread apart. When we’re lucky, it’s just between two states, but four months of the year my dad is on another continent. We don’t see family very often!
We live in the town we moved to when we were just married, a town where we knew no one at all, and had no close friends until I met R at work. We’ve made a few good friends here over the years, and imported some friends from home. And we’ve learned that dear friends are really part of the family. I wrote about some of them here in January, when we went to the portrait studio for my birthday.
Today, I returned to the portrait studio with another chunk of our found family: the unsocialized, wild, weird & wonderful homeschooling kids. Leigh & her family are leaving next week (her husband has a 6-month assignment out of town) and Leigh, Paula and I wanted to get a portrait of all our kids together before they left.
We’re a lucky, lucky family.
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