Holidays... family holidays.

Easter is a holiday that we hadn't gone to Alabama together for in quite a few years. I usually am the one who for sure has to work on Easter wether Allen did or not. Several of the last recent years our godchildren and their parents have been able to come up on or around Easter and stay with us and that has always been so much fun. And the bunny comes when they are here. And that is SO MUCH FUN!!!

This year I have a petsitting job in a LOVELY area of town that I WISH I could afford to live in. It's a place where the neighbors all know each other and watch out for your place, and hang out and drink on the porch or front yard together. The kind of place I've never lived. I mean I could hang out in my garage and drink now, but I'm not close to my neighbors here and I don't really like being in the garage. I can't wait to go over and walk the dog. He fetches. It'll be nice to snuggle with him tonight too. I've been warned that he's a big snuggler.

I am really really happy that I have the opportunity to petsit and earn the extra money. I'm a little sad that I won't have dumplings. Maybe I should break down and make some...hmmm.

My brother will be visiting Alabama family this weekend. I do wish I could be there to see him. I haven't seen him since my flight from Daddy's house over the Christmas Holiday and I just want him to visually see that I am OK. I miss him. That's not new. I don't talk to him as often as I do my sisters. He's busy and so am I. He's ok and like my dad in that he knows if I'm not ok, then I will let someone know. He always takes time for me when I let him know I need it.

I'm so proud of everything he has accomplished. He was my childhood hero before Jim Henson and Wonder Woman.  He left home and never looked back. He made his own path and never seemed to feel guilty for finding his own happiness and establishing his own family elsewhere.

:)