Family. This is the thing that has built me into the woman I am today. This is the thing that has held me together when everything else has fallen apart. This is the thing I measure almost everything against. I have an incredibly stable, loving, supportive family that has always been as solid as a rock. I'm lucky, I think, because my family extends beyond just my parents and siblings. It includes an aunt and uncle who are amazing and their children and grandchild. It includes a few incredibly close friends and their own families. These friends, my women women, my other support group, are all spread wide and far, yet, when I need them they are thisclose to me (thank god for technology). Now I am building my own family with my husband, and I am comforted by the knowledge that when our baby arrives, she (or he, according to my dad), will receive the same kind of love, support, stability and strength I have always received from my own extended family. It is amazing to be married to someone who shares, besides culture, a similar upbringing, a similar set of values and beliefs, someone who will be my partner in raising our child, not my enemy. I say this because for me, part of forming a family needs to include this shared set of values and beliefs that we can pass on to our baby. With a a failed marriage and a successful one, I can compare and be thankful that I found the right person to bring a child into the world with. Family. Wow. I can't believe that I am adding to my own!
Copyright Karina Sang 2008
4 comments:
good luck with your growing family!
Your story is my story too. Lucky in all aspects of family, but especially in choice of husband. Your child will be lucky too, at least with respect to the family she or he grows up in.
I'm glad you mentioned the family of supportive women.
Congratulations and many blessings! Thanks for stopping by our Year of Gratitude site.
What a lovely tribute to your family, past, present, and future :)
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