A New Home

We've started the process of buying a house. It's fun and exciting and all that, but it's also very tiring. I keep getting to work feeling I need to sleep for 2 or 3 more hours. It's not that I'm going to bed any later than usual, I'm just really tired.

We've found a house that we like, and hopefully I'll know this week how sure it is that this is the one. I ended up dreaming about the inspection last night though. In my dream, it was a different house, and in the first few rooms we looked in there was a lot of work that needed to be done. However, as we moved on, the rooms became more elaborate and grand. The house was also much bigger, and we just kept finding more and more rooms. The place in my dream was an interesting house, but I don't think I would want to live in such a big place. Even in my dream I was thinking of how we'd have to end up renting out some of the rooms, just to use them all.

I can't wait till things are finalized. Packing and moving doesn't sound fun either, but at least you have a better idea of how long it will take and what exactly is going on.

Cousins, Aunts, and Grandmas! Oh My!

I woke up this morning to a phone call about my aunt being in the hospital. I got ready quickly and went there to wait with everyone else and see that she was okay. Fortunately, the doctor was able to take care of everything with a fairly quick procedure, and she should be back home tomorrow.

The time that I had sitting in the waiting room with my family made me think about something though. I have a lot of family members that I think of as a different relation than they really are. My Mom was the youngest of 10 kids, and the family that we are closest to are her oldest sister's family. Also, my Grandma lived with us until I was in 4th grade. This made my Grandma seem more like a second Mom. Because my Aunt is considerably older than my Mom, and because I was the same age as her grandchildren, she has often seemed like a Grandma. Some of my cousins seem like aunts and uncles, and my first cousins once removed seem like my first cousins.

All my life I've had a horrible time of trying to explain the relationships in my family to anyone else. Of course, that could also be due to the number of relatives that I have. But no matter what, I'm thankful for my family, and I'm glad that I could be close by to visit my Aunt while she was in the hospital.