Life Lesson #124 ~ The Love & Importance of Extended Family
"Extended family is a wondrous thing because their love and influence is a choice." ~Christina Olachia Our family has been blessed many times over by an extensive extended family. Through the years, as close as we were to our family, those bound to us by blood we were also separated by hundreds of miles more often than not. This is where we learned ,"home is wherever our bunch of crazies are." The wonderful thing about growing up in an environment like I did was even as an only child, I was never lonely. I was in fact surrounded by unbelievable and generous brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts and second moms and dads. Today many of those same folks are still part of our lives, entwined and defined simply as family. In fact many of these extended family members are not only an extension but an intricate part of who we are, who I am today. It's been said, "Family isn't always blood. It's the people in your life who want you in theirs; accept...