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NATIONAL COUSINS DAY – July 24
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NATIONAL AUNT AND UNCLE’S DAY – July 26
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Everything above this line is from the National Day Calendar website,
1. What can you tell us about your cousins, please, or someone who is close like a cousin? Being an only child, my cousins were very important to me... I always looked so forward to visiting with them...Many times we were visiting with dad's family.. here I am with my next oldest cousin, Gary... Such a special Cuz... He was my baby doll in the beginning! This was my third Christmas at Granny's!
On mother's side we were quite a rag tag looking bunch...
Seated is Pam's little sister, Patti!
That cute little blond, Pam, lived with us for about a year when she was about this age.. while her mother had cancer... Thankfully Aunt Betty is hale and hearty today at 91. However, this made Pam very special to me.. We've always been closer than I am to most of my other cousins on this side of the family.
That cute little blond, Pam, lived with us for about a year when she was about this age.. while her mother had cancer... Thankfully Aunt Betty is hale and hearty today at 91. However, this made Pam very special to me.. We've always been closer than I am to most of my other cousins on this side of the family.
Anytime Pam come to visit she always loved to play with our young neighbor across the street, Joyce, who was my maid of honor in my wedding..
She sent photo cards every year.. which was a great way to keep up with her growing family!
When my mother passed in 2014, Pam was right by my side and she released the dove at the graveside!
Now we get to visit her at her NC mountain home... or at our annual family reunion which this year was held last Saturday
Here she posed with another Cuz, Turtle, who is so much younger than me, he is almost like a nephew
Jenny is also very special to me even though we have a great age difference.. She lived next door to Grandma and when we went to Grandma's for Christmas we saw Jenny every time. so we have wonderful Christmas memories. I was a college co-ed here on Christmas morning and had had to put up my stocking to, so I put my red patent leather boot up while Jenny had her stocking. We had slept together that night before while visions of sugar plums danced in our heads!
2. Do you still see your cousins and will you contact them on National Cousins Day?
I just saw a lot of them at the family reunion on Saturday.
Nick, Pam's son, and Bill, Pam's brother
Aunt Betty, age 91, Pam's mom, and her brother, Tom.
All of our reunions are held here at Glenwood!
Pam and I visit. She was here last spring and we enjoyed a day trip traveling all over some of Virginia's historic venues. I hope to visit her this fall!
On Dad's side, I visit quite a bit with Gary and his family, but schedules make visiting hard. We are trying to work out something for August!
On Dad's side, I visit quite a bit with Gary and his family, but schedules make visiting hard. We are trying to work out something for August!
3. Terri had a favorite aunt and uncle she will tell us about. How about you?
Here are mother's 5 sisters. L-r: Janice, Tommye, Virginia, Nancy, Betty. I love all of them in different ways.. Janice was closest to mom in age, and when I went to the country to visit grandma for a week or two by myself I loved to see Janice who lived nearby because she reminded so much of momma... She also taught me and Amanda how to knit!!!
Aunt Tommye lives near me.. I see her often and we love to share news about the family.
Aunt Virginia ,Jenny's mom, was a neighbor to Grandma and my Mother when she lived in Galax. We spent all of our Christmases together.. Aunt Nancy is only 6 years older than me. but lives in Southern Florida so we hardly ever see each other.. but long ago growing up she was so much fun.. She did a mean imitation of Elvis... man, can she sing, and she was the FUN aunt!
Aunt Tommye lives near me.. I see her often and we love to share news about the family.
Aunt Virginia ,Jenny's mom, was a neighbor to Grandma and my Mother when she lived in Galax. We spent all of our Christmases together.. Aunt Nancy is only 6 years older than me. but lives in Southern Florida so we hardly ever see each other.. but long ago growing up she was so much fun.. She did a mean imitation of Elvis... man, can she sing, and she was the FUN aunt!
Aunt Betty, is a sweetheart... Pam's mother, and also mother to 4 other cousins.. I loved it when we got together with all the kids and fun!!
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Let's not forget the uncles.. here they joined up out of hearing from the cackling surely going in the house.. Aha! Hubs is there on the left.. then see Uncle Lawrence, two men who I think are mother's cousins, my cousin, Sam, Uncle Bill, and Uncle Ira.
One Christmas Betty's family came to our house and we got to build a snowman in the snow... Here she is working hard with Tom . I have a great group photo but lost it today! SO I have to say I love all my aunts the same
Let's not forget the uncles.. here they joined up out of hearing from the cackling surely going in the house.. Aha! Hubs is there on the left.. then see Uncle Lawrence, two men who I think are mother's cousins, my cousin, Sam, Uncle Bill, and Uncle Ira.
4. Did/does your family have reunions and can you tell us about them?
Our family on Mom's side got together at least once during the summer and always at Christmas as long as Grandma and Grandpa were with us.. so that was up until 1988. After that most of us got together each year at the Cox Reunion at the church.
Dad's family lived sort of on the way home from Grandma Cox's farm, so we always stopped Sunday afternoon to see them.. Everyone gathered at Granny's for supper...so yes, mother's family got the preference when it came to visiting..
Dad's family lived sort of on the way home from Grandma Cox's farm, so we always stopped Sunday afternoon to see them.. Everyone gathered at Granny's for supper...so yes, mother's family got the preference when it came to visiting..
5. If you have children, are they enjoying relationships with their cousins, aunts, uncles?
Amanda doesn't have any aunts, uncles or first cousins so when the whole family used to get together she loved to play with her second cousins..
Now the seconds live too far apart to get together..
She is very friendly with a couple of second boy cousins whom I havent written much because , well her mother was the baby I was holding. we dint have a lot in common, escept from the time Amanda was 4 til she graduated hs. we met that family at Myrtle Beach over Thanksgiving week.. So Amanda got very cousinly with Chris and Tom..I dont have that many photos that I was able to find to put this together! But Chris is now a surgeon in Chicago, and Tom is a law student in Chicago.
6. Tell us something random about your week so far.
Well, for one thing I tore through the photos to find these and there are myriad others tucked away, but this is all I could readily get my hands on. Now I have to have the fun of trying to organize them back into hole in the cabinet from which they came.
' We are meeting friends tonight for dinner for BBQ.. then going to Bible Study together..Hub's cousins all getting together for dinner out this Saturday so it defintely is cousins' week for us!
Well, for one thing I tore through the photos to find these and there are myriad others tucked away, but this is all I could readily get my hands on. Now I have to have the fun of trying to organize them back into hole in the cabinet from which they came.
' We are meeting friends tonight for dinner for BBQ.. then going to Bible Study together..Hub's cousins all getting together for dinner out this Saturday so it defintely is cousins' week for us!
