Today is national Cousins Day.<\/p>\n
I see many posts on social media about how “cousins are your first friends” or something to that effect.\u00a0 My father speaks glowingly about his days with his “first friends”.\u00a0 \u00a0I see lots of folks posting pics of their kids with their cousins having a great time.\u00a0 \u00a0If you were blessed this way, congrats to you!<\/p>\n
I personally was not.\u00a0 Oh sure, I have second cousins and other extended family I’d see once in a while when I was a kid.\u00a0 \u00a0But I was 11 when my first first cousin was born.\u00a0 \u00a0I have six first cousins total, ranging in ages from 36 to 20- three of which are in the photo attached to this post along with myself, my sister and my niece and nephew.\u00a0 \u00a0With the exception of the oldest, Mike, I wouldn’t say I have a typical cousin relationship with any of them simply due to the age gap.\u00a0 It’s more like having five more nieces\/ nephews.\u00a0 Which is fine, just different.<\/p>\n
So whether you were born into lots of cousins or got them later in life, today is a great day to tell them how much you appreciate them.\u00a0 And if you don’t have any cousins (like my niece and nephew), reach out to a friend who’s like family to you instead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today is national Cousins Day. I see many posts on social media about how “cousins are your first friends” or something to that effect.\u00a0 My father speaks glowingly about his days with his “first friends”.\u00a0 \u00a0I see lots of folks posting pics of their kids with their cousins having a great time.\u00a0 \u00a0If you were blessed this way, congrats to… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-its-all-love","category-warm-fuzzies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t