Extended Family

Hey look, It's Friday and I actually posted my Flashback Friday on Friday! Go Caelyn!! So this week's prompt from Mocha with Linda's Flashback Friday is:

Tell about any grandparents, cousins, or other extended family that was special to you growing up. Did they live near you or some distance away? Do you have any particular childhood memories (good OR bad!) of times spent with your grandparents? With your cousins? Did you spend holidays with them? At whose house did you generally gather? Do you still keep up with cousins, aunts & uncles, etc.? Did your paternal relatives and maternal relatives know and get along with each other?

Left to Right: Cousin Jan, Aunt Judy, Uncle Bob, Aunt Nancy, Rich (Aunt Nancy's husband), and Poppy


Despite my family, we are slightly normal! My extended family, on the other hand, well we won't say anything about them on here! I actually love my extended family, and with my mom's side they are a large Irish family and always amazing!

Let's see, my Aunt Nancy, rents the cottage at Hawk's Nest Beach usually one week, but is now living in Old Lyme, so it's usually well, I don't know she just moved down to Old Lyme a couple years ago. Aunt Nancy is the crazy, but totally awesome, aunt who has all of the family gatherings. You do Christmas Eve at Aunt Nancy's and even Santa Clause shows up! You go to the annual family reunion, which is set up by Aunt Nancy. Aunt Nancy is my mom's, adoptive mother's, sister? Get it?

There is also Cousin Jan! Cousin Jan is one of those twice removed cousins, so she's around my grandfathers age, but she is completely cool! I always love when I can spend some time with her, hopefully sometime this summer we can make it down, because I haven't seen her since last summer!

My Grandparents, okay so I have four sets of grandparents. I have Poppy & Grandma Booboo Foot (she died in 2001) these are my mom's adoptive parents. Then I have Grandma Out West, who is my mom's birth mom and lives out in Oregon. Then Grandpa Terry & Memere, Grandpa Terry is my dad's father, and Memere is his girlfriend. Last, but not least is Grandma Isabella and George, Grandma Isabella is my dad's mother and George is her boyfriend.

Poppy & Grandma were my favorite set, Poppy and I go to University of Hartford games when ever the two of us can make it, and we still meet for coffee whenever I'm back at my old town. Grandma was amazing, while mom & dad worked full time Grandma would watch Bro #1 and I, but she died in 2001 from cancer, and I miss her terribly.

Grandma Out West, I have only met once in my life, with the rest of my mom's birth family, but hopefully I'll be able to see her again this fall if I make it out to Oregon! Grandma Out West and I stay in touch through Facebook and email, and once and while we'll send a letter to each other!

Grandpa Terry and Memere would always take Bro #1 and I whenever mom & dad went on their "Couples Only Weekend", we would usually go to Saturday Mass, which I always thought is cool, even though I am Protestant I like experiencing different religions. Then we would probably do some yard work, which is alright, not my favorite thing to do, but I love spending time with Grandpa and Memere, since we don't get to see them all that often.

Grandma Isabella & George, Grandma and I are just trying to connect to each other, which is kind of cool.

My favorite memory is when I was five, during the winter Grandma BooBoo Foot and I and Bro #1 would make paper snowflakes in the finished basement and we would make a ton of paper snowflakes, and then for every season we would get the Slice-n-Bake from Pillsbury and we would eat one or two, raw, shhhhh don't tell my mom ;) And we would make the rest of the cookies. It was also the last piece of food that she ate in October, I made the cookies and she took one bite.

Now that my novel is completed, I will now link up to the Flashback Friday from Mocha with Linda!


Cae ♥