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Dec. 5th, 2015 09:15 pmMy oldest first cousin had double bypass surgery this week. It went well and he's recovering nicely. I'm the youngest on that side of the family, so even though we're the same generation, we're pretty spread out -- I think he's 24 years older than me. Still, though. When did we stop being a bunch of kids who played in the river together?
Over Thanksgiving, my mom's side of the family was almost entirely in attendance, and there are lots of toddlers in the next generation now. So there was lots of discussion about all the things the toddlers are learning to do and that sort of thing. My brother's kids are older, but he had a contribution to the discussion, too...
"Frankie has recently started doing something that most kids don't do until they're much older, so we think she's pretty ahead of the curve. She's been denying her farts."
My mom is horribly embarrassed whenever I use the f-word ("fart") on social media, because she thinks it reflects on the way she raised me. Well, duh. We are the fartingest family there is. But maybe Frankie will turn out to be the lady that my mother always wished I would become, since somehow she's picked up a sense of shame to accompany her farts. She didn't learn that from any Massie.
Over Thanksgiving, my mom's side of the family was almost entirely in attendance, and there are lots of toddlers in the next generation now. So there was lots of discussion about all the things the toddlers are learning to do and that sort of thing. My brother's kids are older, but he had a contribution to the discussion, too...
"Frankie has recently started doing something that most kids don't do until they're much older, so we think she's pretty ahead of the curve. She's been denying her farts."
My mom is horribly embarrassed whenever I use the f-word ("fart") on social media, because she thinks it reflects on the way she raised me. Well, duh. We are the fartingest family there is. But maybe Frankie will turn out to be the lady that my mother always wished I would become, since somehow she's picked up a sense of shame to accompany her farts. She didn't learn that from any Massie.
