Cousins

This has been a week of extreme ups and downs for me. The death of my friend and co-worker was extremely difficult and it is not over as I have the service to attend tomorrow. But in the midst of all of that I received a phone call from my cousin Rick Brines - he was in Charleston on business! Rick and his family live in Raleigh NC. They moved there about the same time that we moved to Charleston but we didn't know it. The last time that I had seen him he was a happy go lucky bachelor living in Colorado - that was at a family reunion back in 1995......long time ago. Now he is living in North Carolina with a beautiful wife and an even more beautiful 6 year old daughter! We had recently found each other through Facebook (yes, there are some really good things about Facebook and I love it!)

So, while I was in the middle of stressing over my friends death, Rick shows up and gives me such a great break and makes me laugh! It was wonderful! I would have enjoyed seeing him anytime but I especially needed it yesterday!

Rick is just a little younger than I am - by maybe 15 years!! So we didn't really grow up together but....we did share all those wierd aunts and uncles and oh, my but we had fun yesterday going over the wierdnesses of each one of them!

Thank you, Rick, for your visit! I love you and loved our time together! Now let's do it again SOON!