extended family
All about how to stay connected, strengthen ties and talk politics with your big, happy extended family.
Companionship crucial for keep seniors happy
Companionship is an irreplaceable experience for many that fosters feelings of love and inclusion. Although many of them live alone, residents in senior living facilities can benefit greatly from receiving visitors such as family members and friends.
By Barnabas Payam4 years ago in Families
How to keep love fresh?
When I was a child, I liked to go to a shop near my home to buy pancakes and eat them. The boss was serious and unsmiling. The pancakes he made were so delicious that the people who sold pancakes near him went out of business. But I really notice him, is to find his movement surprisingly fast, without any redundant action, "brush brush" a few times, well, say: "money in the box, the change for yourself." Off to my next client. Every time I saw that his movements did not change at all, I took my Casio electronic watch and gave him a watch. The result was that the battle ended in about 31 seconds miraculously. Poor man, I thought, he reminded me of a Chaplin mime: a workman is sent to stand in one position and turn a screw, like a robot, and so on and so on, and he goes mad. I think, this pancake stall owner is also such mechanical repetition, he must be not far from crazy. But what happened next was not what I expected. On one occasion, an aunt asked him lay a pancake face how, oneself could not do so, the previous unsmiling boss, and the method and the proportion of water and aunt chat along while, about his original selling pancakes in tianjin multi-purpose miso, now this way (the town in the north) how is the taste, and with what method and so on, reasonable, charting. He moved so fast because he was a soldier and developed the habit of neat movements. After retiring from the army and doing this line of work, he studied how to put all kinds of sauces and the position of the basin to ensure that the table was clean every time he finished. After a while, he developed a new way to eat it, working with a nearby churro stall where pancakes can be stuffed with churros. To see him again on vacation, he had rented a shop near the original location, expanded the scope of business, the queue to buy more people. At this point, you've probably seen what I'm trying to say. He's always exploring his field, he's got a higher goal, he's always moving forward. Is the life of two people completely unchanged when they fall in love? Regular dates, small talk, dinner, sleep. Then all this good life, all this good time has not been wasted. If two people are willing to live a better life together, willing to improve themselves and help each other improve, every day will be different. Can learn a musical instrument together, the best introduction to the guitar is good. From the simplest C, Am together, to use of a large, maddening to halting, grilled to song, the process of learning the skills of ascension, you will more and more in this topic, a master to go to the concert, will go to the shop, slowly have the foundation, will certainly want to record their own play, the recording this from the equipment to the shooting Angle, All of them have been studied for a long time. If one day you pick up your unfamiliar guitar and play your melody and her SOLO, it's really great. Practice a unisex sport together, such as badminton. From the high ball training, training pace, training running straight line cross, orang-utan jump, small ball, smash, chopping and hanging, each skill is worth pondering, need to practice, you can also form mixed doubles, participate in various amateur competitions, that will bring much joy. In this way, not only do you both improve, but more importantly, through these activities, you both improve together. You are always together. Wait until the leisure time aftertaste, think of the picture of working together, the moment of sharing the same boat, there is no better than this?
By Mackay Terry4 years ago in Families
Love in the circle of friends and my relativity of love
Whether it be in the countryside or in the woods of steel, it is man, not any other unenlightened creature, who struggles on. Because we broke out of the era of simply living and procreating. As times change and technology develops, whether you can keep up with the current trends or not, we are all struggling to move forward. No matter how cruel The Times may be, there is always a comforting primordiousness in man - living in groups.
By Heineman Barrera4 years ago in Families
The Claddagh
Many years ago, my great grandmother saved a special ring that was passed by generations, it was called "The Claddagh Ring" which is a ring worn by all types of women in Ireland. One day, when I went to visit my great-grandmother on my birthday in Dublin and my seanmhathair told me she had something really special for me, I was so curious to know what it was. I gasped when I saw her take a small box from the drawer and opened it the words she said were "This ring went from generation to generation, all the women in the family wore it, and now it's your turn to wear it, with this ring one day you'll meet your prince, but for now you should wear it on your right hand with the heart pointing out." After that day, the only thing you could see on my face was a smile and I did everything with the ring. Four years later, I met a handsome guy from Ireland; he had big ocean blue eyes, rosy lips, smooth black hair, and a smile that melts your heart away, his name was Shane Byrnes. We went to the same University in Indiana, he was studying Engineer and I was studying medicine, even though we were so busy with our studies we made time to spend together. About two years later we both graduated and began our career paths, I had to go to Utah and Shane went back to Ireland. We kept in touch all the time even though I had to work day and night, I sent him a text when I could. Suddenly, we lost contact and we went our separate ways but my great-mother always told me that what's meant to be will never be broken and I never left him out of my mind, a year later, I fly back to Ireland because they offer me a job as a Neurosurgeon on the new hospital building which was built by Shane. That day I saw him and he smiled and hugged me, he was telling me everything he went through and how much he missed me, I'm not going to lie I was so happy to see him again. A couple of years later, Shane and I got married he bought me a Claddagh ring and put it on my left hand with the heart pointing up which means I married the love of my life and we had 3 precious kids a girl, and twin boys. Now we have 10 years of marriage and my ring will be passed to my daughter Aine when she turns 20 and that ring will still pass by generation and generation thanks to all the women in my family.
By Maria Santiago4 years ago in Families
An F'D up love story
My story begins when i met my (now) fiance. We met through his cousin/my best friend. Neither of us had intentions on dating. Especially because he had a child already on the way. We ended up meeting each other and sparks FLEW. It was confusing but so so exciting. I fell in love and so did he.
By Erica Mendoza4 years ago in Families
For My Uncle
When I hear the words dad or father, I instantly think of the one and only father figure I could ever know and love in my life. That person was my uncle Tony my dads youngest brother. I still have no idea where to even begin my story with him other he was an exceptionally remarkable man who had a lot of pride and determination to always to what was right. But most importantly he also knew how to be a leader and a true model for all those that knew him including myself. Before he was married and had children of his own I unexpectedly became his first when he took me in during a time I needed him the most.
By Joanna Blaze4 years ago in Families
Father Figured Not
It is said that a little girl's father is her first true love. And that he teaches her what to accept and expect from the men that will surely come. How amazing that must truly be. To experience life so calm and pure from the beginning of your life. To be protected at any and all cost by a father is a joy that cannot be bought. They come when you cry and want to make it all better. Until another man takes over and asks for your hand in marriage. And the father reluctantly agrees to allow the marriage of his baby girl. Only because he knows that she picked a man like him. A man that will not only love, protect, and provide for her but also their children when that day comes. He's confident that he has given her the tools, wisdom, and knowledge to make the best choices in love and life.
By Daisy Lashae4 years ago in Families
