Family Relationships

We have just come back from the annual family get together in Norfolk. Every year we get together for a weekend to just meet up and share our lives and get back in touch with each other. Some years to be honest  these events are the only time I have seen or spoken to my brother and sister all year. My Mum and Dad love it all, they are the centre of attention all weekend and they get to see their grandchildren all together, getting on together. Family, I think, as they get older becomes more important to them.

The kids are now growing up and  my brother's two daughters weren't there,my eldest nephew left early as did my son. These weekend are sometimes really good and sometimes really bad and sometimes, like this year, really average. The weekend weather, a mixture of rain and wind and low temperatures didn't help.
My brother has been unemployed for six months now and is starting to get stressed about it and that probably didn't help the atmosphere. Sometimes these weekend make me realise why I was so desperate to leave home at 18. But as we all get a bit older we become more alike and I like my family more now than I did as a teenager.

Music doesn't feature much in these weekends although my Dad is a very keen jazz fan. He thinks music is for listening to not as background noise. So there is no background noise. Sometimes there is silence,except for  the sounds in my own head. This is totally different to my wife's family where there is never any silence. My kids find this  difference between the two families fascinating.

This song by Billy Franks was the sound in my head all weekend. Don't know why. sometimes it happens that a song gets into your brain and you can't shake it off. Good job it's not a bad song

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She's The Messiah In Me- Billy Franks