The Crazy Cousin Reunion

It happened, that wonderful event around which our two-month trek was planned: The Crazy Cousin Reunion.

What fun -- to be with all our cousins on Dad's side of the family and most of their spouses plus a couple of the kids!! Only two of the fifteen cousins could not come -- Robert & John Bruce, both of whom live in New Brunswick. We missed you!!

Family is an incredible blessing. In this particular situation, family is widely scattered, so getting together is not easy. Two of us live in the States (Washington state and Southern California), three in New Brunswick (for those of you whose Canadian geography is sketchy, that's way over on the east side of the country), one in Calgary, and the rest in Ontario -- obviously, the distance between us all is quite vast. We're incredibly grateful to Ted & Nancy Boadway, who put the event together and hosted Merrilyn & Jack and Neil & me for our stay in Ontario, and to Mike & Donna Boadway who hosted the reunion.

For those of you curious to know what the "Crazy Cousins" look like, I'm posting a picture of us all above.

One of the other special things that happened during our time "back home" was dinner at our cousin Wendy's. She and Trevor live about 1 1/2 blocks from Lake Ontario, so we walked the boardwalk before dinner (see picture), returned to their home, and had dinner served on our grandmother's china. What a rare and wondrous treat that was, and how thrilled Grandma Johnson would have been to know that five of her grandchildren gathered around the table that evening and ate from her dishes!!