Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for December 22, 2021

Family

Uncle Leo? Helloooooooo!

The two of us, our daughters home for the break, my cousin and her wife. We live in Canada and those friends and relatives in the USA can’t cross the border no matter. how many shots they have had. Crazy Uncle Leo, who refused to get vaxxed is in hospital on a ventilator, his wife already died from COVID.

I’m staying away from my gym for a while and not going to work at the hospital this week out of an abundance of caution so I can visit with my small family. All of us are vaccinated, but one sister has a heart condition and an in-law who has had cancer treatments.

Be thankful you HAVE family – too many don’t…

I agree…..

And less political

The ’kid’s table’ has less Kartrashian FAKE drama to the conversations.

As the oldest brother of four, I sat at the “kid’s table” years after I was an adult. My job was to keep the kids laughing so they would not pester the grownups. I could have been a professional comedian – for ten-year-olds. :)

I am so glad that the family members I grew up with is over 1000 miles to the south, east and west. I have never regretted cutting off communication with the last one over a decade ago.

Weird beliefs, annoying in-laws (spouses they married), grievances about something that occurred in our youth, their problems and losses are somebody else’s fault and petty jealousies. Those who grew up in dysfunctional families know what I am talking about. Those that had a stable center of being from better parenting should always remember how fortunate they are and make sure to pass on the “algorithm”.

And intelligent.