My sister and I went to PA for the weekend to visit my Aunt and Uncle. My Aunt Grace is the last of my father’s siblings still alive. It is always a great time to visit her and my Uncle Jack. Fun to hear the stories of her and her siblings and fun to reminisce on old family stories. I think each time we visit, I learn a new factoid about my dad or one of his siblings.

My cousin Molly was also in town watching her 7 month old granddaughter, Nora. She joined us and we started a conversation on how we all were related to Nora. We figured my Aunt Grace was a great, great aunt and my sister and I were second cousins, once removed – or something like that. Turns out we were wrong. My Aunt Grace is a grand aunt and I think we are just second cousins; I’ve already forgotten. Molly’s husband is into genealogy and he was able to explain to us via text, our correct titles.

We spent the evening going over some old films my cousin Sue had put onto CD and my Aunt explained who everyone was in the films. We took a few pictures from it. I’ve included the one of my dad that looks like he should have been in one of the vampire movies. Sorta scary.

It was a great visit and we look forward to our next time together. I thought today, after a weekend of stories about my dad and his family, I would play one of his favorite songs from my IPod. He bought me the album that this song is from and I still have it. Just nothing to play it on.