Some college kids party it up in Miami for Spring Break. Others take a Caribbean Cruise. (Hello Chocolate-Covered little sister!)
But I am the luckiest girl of all, because I get to spend Spring Break this year with the cutest kids ever: my cousins!
Hmmm, something’s wrong. They look too tame in the picture.
This is more like it. 🙂
Scrapbook page of the day:
I have two first cousins and one older brother and we’re stair-step ages. My brother is one year older than my girl cousin, she’s one year older than I am, and I’m one year older than my boy cousin. 🙂 The whole family has always had dinner together every Sunday night, and until I was about eleven or twelve, my Grandad would take the four of us kids out on an outing every Sunday – to the pool, or the movies, or the park, or the beach, or one of his workplaces (he was the general manager of a cheese factory and owned a confectionery and soft drink factory — how lucky were we, hee?). He even kept a huge plastic bag of coins in the car (nicknamed the “slush fund”) that we were allowed to take huge handfuls from to buy lollies, chocolate and cherries to eat while we were out. Just to compound the healthy-ness of the day, we usually stopped for lunch at KFC and ate it at the beach or the wharf. It was awesome, actually, having such great grandparents and cousins close to my age, although it’s funny, I used to feel like the odd one out regardless, so you’re not alone in feeling excluded at times! 🙂 My girl cousin was very much a tomboy and I’ve always been the most adamant girly girl, so she got along much better with the boys than I did. I still see them most weekends and things have evened out a bit now that we’re adults!
That makes me think of this girl in elementary who always knew more than the rest of us about that kind of stuff. She told us about flipping someone off, but I didn’t believe her that it was dirty. At the dinner table that night, I held up my middle finger and said, “Kim said this was dirty.” My mom was wide-eyed and said we would talk about it later. And we’re going to LA for spring break – sooo excited about the restaurants!
Lol about the bra size question- and the virgin one!
Um…Mounds bar pancakes. That sounds like the most amazing thing EVER.
hey! i see you always use artisana coconut butter and i have been *dying* to try some but where can i buy some? only online?
virginia,
Depending on where you live, you might be able to find some at a local health food store or Whole Foods. I get mine at Whole Foods.
spring break? what’s that? oh that week that all the moms take off from work. gotcha. 🙂
i am the oldest grandchild on my dad’s side and never had strong relationships with any of them, and wouldn’t know cousins on my mom’s side if i saw them on the street. neither parent (mine divorced when i was 4) encouraged strong relationships with siblings and cousins (yet act shocked when i’m not tight with my own siblings…what-ever).
ironically? when i was 23 i met a new cousin – my aunt had given her up for adoption when she was in high school and i was a toddler and i never even knew she existed. she found us and i met her in 1997 and it was soooo cool. the first person in my family that i actually look like. and unlike everyone else, we are very close. happily ever after 🙂
You’re gorgeous girl. You have such nice skin, so flawless and smooth looking. For spring break I’m not going anywhere per se. I’m just excited to see my family and boyfriend at home!
You can definitely tell you’re related to your cousins. You really do look alike!
Ok, your story about 3rd grade totally made me giggle. Reminds me of when I was in 6th grade and the latest trend in middle school insults was to call someone “a masturbator.”
Maybe I was just an especially naive 6th grader, but I had no idea what that meant. I also have a very grammatically geared brain, so I thought a “masturbator” was someone who was very good at putting worms on a fishing hook. You know… a master baiter. I wasn’t sure what was so wrong with that, but I was too embarrassed to admit that I didn’t know what the term meant, so I laughed along with everyone else. Then I went home and said, “Mom, what’s a masturbator?”
And as for the bra size? I once got too drunk for my own good and told a cab driver to take exit 36B to get to my apartment. “I REMEMBER IT BECAUSE IT’S MY BRA SIZE!!!!”
Ugh, I am such an embarrassment.
Your cousins are super cute, they probably think you are the coolest person ever. My cousins are kind of a wide age range – but they all live far away, so I don’t have a close relationship with them. However, when I was very young, my cousins tricked me into saying a swear word (can’t remember which one) in Spanish to my mom. I was gullible and naive apparently. Oh well! This weekend I’m making a Whole Foods run and I am planning on raiding your blog for some recipes… I think the hardest part will be trying to choose just a few!
Finally, spring break. 44 days to graduation. I can make it. This spring break, I’m going to try to finish writing my novel. Writing a book and going to school is hard!
McKela