Manicure

Kelly and I got to treat ourselves to a manicure today. It wasn't the best manicure I've had, but it was worth the quality time and getting out of the house. Kelly and I revisited an old conversation that gets repeated often in our times together... The wish that our family was geographically closer. As we get older, the reasons for our family to live closely exponentially increase. It is very difficult not to envy someone who has had the support and physical help of a family close by. I'm talking about nonna
taking the babies for a day, the sister's having face to face pow-wows when things are hard, a coffee break, a dinner together. These are the things that families who all live within 4 square miles of each other take for granted. Kelly and I preach the choir when we list the reasons one by one that prove our point. The problem is that we both are faced with the realities of jobs and opportunity and the other side of the family to keep in mind. It's hard to be in such a transient global community when you know deep down inside, the best thing for you now is to have your own village with your family in it. Your family doesn't charge for mother's day out. How do you bridge the gap between freedom of opportunity and independence to safety of family connection and support? It's a really hard question for my family. It's tradition to ask it every family vacation-" how do we get together?"