On the subject of relations
[quoted from rusted]
Jalen and Phina are the children of Annie’s friend (and acupuncturist) Taya and her husband, Mark. Now, in case that isn’t complicated enough, Taya’s brother is Aubrey, who is engaged to Annie’s cousin Jesse. And as if that weren’t enough, most of the people at the party were friends of Taya and Mark’s, so I was introduced as “Taya’s brother’s cousin’s husband, Scott.”
The above quote is from a post I made to Rusted explaining who Jalen and Phina are to people from my family who didn’t know, and it got me thinking about relations, and how crazy they are.
For instance: David and I met my freshman year of college, and quickly became friends. I didn’t meet Annie until Dave was leaving town (as far as I knew, for good) and threw and going-away party. Annie drove down to hang out, and to deliver Rose, who had just started dating Dave. I probably met Rose that night, but didn’t talk for long, because I was too busy hitting on my friend’s younger sister.
Now, I’m married to said sister, previously mentioned friend is my brother-in-law (or the other way around, depending on where you’re standing), and previously mentioned friend’s girlfriend is now my sister-in-law(-in-law).
In just five quick years I’ve gone from thinking I probably wouldn’t ever be seeing much of Dave anymore to being related to him and seeing him every few weeks.
Now Annie and Rose are talking about having children, and how great it will be, and how close all of our kids will be, and I’ve suddenly realized that to our kids, this is how it will have always been. Moms and Dads and Aunts and Uncles rather than friends and relatives and in-laws and crazy stuff like that.
I dunno, I guess I didn’t really have a point, just that I think it’s kind of funny how all this stuff works out, and I couldn’t be happier with my new family and extended family.
me and tawney want to have a party for all of us at her house on the 17th at 6pm. zach if that works for you let me know. 