Family

Family.

What images and emotions does that word evoke for you?

For me, I think holidays, my parents, my brother, my cousins, aunts/uncles, stress, pressure, eating, fights, love, happiness, hurt, the list goes on and on.

I think it's safe to say that the majority of people take their family for granted. Yes we fight, but at the end of the day, the people we are fighting with are still our family. It's hard. We have expectations for our family members. Maybe unreasonable ones. Sometimes we let them slide, time and time again. Sometimes we use and abuse them. Underappreciate them, walk all over them or simply forget to tell them how we feel about them. I catch myself getting really frustrated with my family sometimes and I later look back and realize that I was not being fair. I wouldn't do that to my friends or even a stranger, so why would I allow myself to do it with my family?

I just want to put this little note out there to remind myself of the importance of my family in my life. I'm super blessed to have these wonderfully flawed people in my life that keep me sane and drive me insane. God knows what I do to/for them.