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[sillygoosegirl]

It is good to be home. It is less good to be back at work.

The family reunion went okay. In spite of Josh not coming with me, only one person was rude enough to ask me to my face if I was still married. It was really good to see my parents, brother, and sister&family again. Lachlan, my youngest nephew, is now a year old and so much more "grown up" and cute than he was at Christmas time. He is walking around, but not talking yet. Kieran (8) seems to take his role as big brother very seriously, and it was very sweet to see him helping to look after Lachlan as best he could. Tristan (10) is also noticably more grown up and has entered the world of braces. As far as the extended family... well, nobody killed each other. But as usual, there was no shortage of drama. I had a really good time talking politics with my parents during the 5 hour car ride back to Portland from Bandon, and during the weekend I talked Shippy into letting me list some of his pottery on ebay... which I will hopefully be getting to actually doing shortly.

I didn't want to come into work today though. After 5 days away and hardly even getting to talk with Josh (no internet and almost no cell coverage available in Bandon), and then not getting home until practically bed time last night... I just wanted to be at home with him for longer before getting back to the old grind.

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[squirrelloid.livejournal.com]

Wait, someone actually asked you if you were still married? You mean thats automatically suspect if you aren't attached at the hip to the other person? Dude, WTF? Seriously.

(Glad he doesn't have a large family).

[sillygoosegirl.livejournal.com]

Well, this is the very special branch of the family where I am rather surprised only one person said it, and I can only assume a lot of them thought it. There are a lot of us (5 children, a mess of grandchildren, 9 great-grandchildren + 1 in the cooker, with most of the grandchildren's families not to or beyond their first baby), and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number (in all the generations put together) who are happily married to the first spouse more than 3 years later. A lasting marriage is, unfortunately, not exactly the expected outcome as far as many of them are concerned.

Had I been visiting my dad's side of the family, I'm sure no one would have said anything like that and I would be extremely surprised if the idea even crossed any of their minds. That side of the family is similarly large, and only 2 of them have ever divorced (and for one of them, it was *so* not her fault... and the other has been happily remarried for around 20 years).