Family

Spent Saturday with the extended family, celebrating Jason's grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary. It is amazing the number of successful marriages in his family! His parents remain close and loving. Both sets of his grandparents provide wonderful marriage models as well. Whenever we travel and see his family, it brings back a little bit of a longing to return to the county in which many of his family lives and he and I grew up. My mother kept the kids while we went to the celebratory dinner (which was also lovely) and we were able to sit and talk. I wish that we could do that more often, although there is a great deal here in Charlotte (like my own wonderful sister and niece, friends, and our church) to keep us here. Isn't it funny how when you have kids you begin to long for the very things you once pushed away?