I feel old!!

This weekend we calibrated my cousins 21^st birthday… how is it possible?!? When I think of her she is a bratty teenager… a young girl with a lifetime of heartache on her shoulders! Now she is a woman, who has taken her unfortunate past and regardless of the fact has carved out a place for herself in this world.

She is what we as a family proudly say our Family child, we all helped raise her… her father had disappeared when he found out her mother was pregnant, so from the day she was born she was ours… the family child! Her mother raised her as best she could with help from the sisters whenever necessary (the sister as we call them is our mothers the 4 of them are the glue that holds this family together).  Just a note that she is the first grandchild and her mother was actually my real causin.

After her mother’s suicide the game was upped and though she was one damn difficult teen, that I personally wanted to throttle on more than one occasion, she got through it, with her head slightly in the clouds she stepped into the adult world around a table in my aunt’s house… where the whine was flowing way to freely! Around that table a year ago I started seeing the woman she would become.

Yesterday it was official she is now one of “us” an adult with all the joys and sorrows coming with it… but that was only the official date the fact is she has been one for a while now… she was forced to be one before she was really ready. But regardless of this fact, she has stepped up to the challenges of life, with a little push from behind every so often and allot of speed bumps along the way.

I’m proud of her, we are all proud of her…

And though she was an angel with a little devil sitting on her shoulder I am honoured that we have been able to walk part of the way with her.

Enough with being soppy… tomorrow it’s my turn… I really, really feel OLD!

Have fun all

Rochelle