Made it in one piece.

It is times like this where it pays to have restaurants in the family.

3-26-11 | gpoy (family)

smile friday - (recycled because today is just one of those days)

This was last saturday at my cousin’s baby shower. I may have had a little too much wine to have taken a decent photo. Ok, no, I did have a little too much. besides the point. Normally, I am not the type to handle being forced to spend time with my family, because we are so big and we are all so different that the majority of the time I feel like I am can’t just be. I want to just be… Why is it that the most ‘religious’ ones are the most judgemental? I don’t get it.

This night, however, was pretty badass and made me realize that maybe if I took the time to work on certain relationships…I could be better off than I was before. I guess maybe I have conditioned myself to shut off people in my family because that way they can’t hurt me. They can’t tell me something I don’t want to hear, something hurtful, and not well ‘judged’….and it carry with me for days. If I shut them off, then I am protecting myself from, just, being.

But, then there are is the family that without saying a word, they will always know what you are saying, doing, feeling. No explanation needed. It just is.

She just is… and I love her for that.

1-1-11 | Rick’s Birthday

*My great-grandmother is a trip. She could not find the camera for the entire self-timer set.