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Post by myboysnme on Jul 31, 2017 23:14:01 GMT
Reunions would have been amazingly fabulous if they had been started in previous generations. But now the family has become so fractured and isolated that there is no way we would ever come together. Even immediate family can't get together. My mom had 4 kids and we've all 4 been in the same room maybe twice in 25 years, and we all live within a few hours of each other.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jul 31, 2017 23:19:01 GMT
Does your family have reunions and do you like attending them? No, we don't. I wish we did, but it just doesn't work out for us. I'm very emotionally close to my parents and live close. Everyone else lives in different states, other than my father's brother, but he isn't close to us, really. |
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Post by lisae on Aug 1, 2017 1:54:56 GMT
We had reunions of my Dad's extended family when I was growing up but they fizzled out. I never liked them, just seeing people once a year that I'd never really known otherwise didn't make for much conversation.
When my aunt was living, she would visit from the midwest annually and get her siblings and their children together for dinner. This I enjoyed but she passed away 2 years ago followed a month later by her older sister so that leaves only my dad and his brother. I have lots of cousins but we don't really get together as a group anymore.
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Post by refugeepea on Aug 1, 2017 2:07:22 GMT
It's better in my family that family reunions consist of my siblings, mother, and aunt.  My dad had several siblings. Those never ended well. I try to go to mine each year, but it involves camping.  I'm in charge next year.  |
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Post by holly on Aug 1, 2017 2:28:58 GMT
My dad's side of the family had yearly reunions for as long as I can remember. As far as I know they still do. I think they are a lot smaller now though. They used to be held at my dad's aunt and uncle's farm but they both have passed away along with his parents. He still goes though. I haven't been in many, many years. It's in Michigan and I live in WA state now. My parents have been divorced since I was 5 so my dad would take us when we were kids. I went a few times as an adult if I happened to be visiting during the same time.
My mom's side never had a reunion. They like to sometimes get together for big birthdays and have a party.
We have friends that have a family reunion at a local lake and have been doing it for something like 60 years at the same resort. They do it for two weeks. Whoever can comeduring that two week period. They rent out the same cabins and everything. It's kind of crazy because the cabins are like $4k a week! And they aren't anything special. But they have been doing it forever.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 2:38:51 GMT
There's two every year.
One is my dad's mother's family. Grandma was one of 10 (?) kids. My dad has like 50 cousins. I have very little to do with that side so I never attend. I've told my mom to please remove my name from the list but I keep getting invitations. I don't know anyone! And I don't really want to know them.
My mom's mom's family has a tiny reunion. I say tiny because the majority of Mom's cousins all moved away and want nothing to do with Michigan. My great aunt is the last sibling of my grandma's sisters. Very rarely does any of my mom's cousins' kids/grandkids attend. I don't know any of them which sucks because my grandma's family used to have a big presence on the lake where she grew up. Only a few people are still there. Everyone else left.
Supposedly there's a reunion for dh's family every now and then but he won't go. He feels he's too far removed so he won't go. I don't think he has been informed of them since his parents split. He's not even sure if they still do it.
I never enjoyed the ones I had to go to.
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Post by peasapie on Aug 1, 2017 3:39:33 GMT
I regularly get together with two of my siblings and a cousin, but a reunion wouldn't work for our family because there aren't enough of us who would come. We are all estranged from one brother, and I honestly don't have a clue as to where half my cousins might be.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Aug 1, 2017 18:29:22 GMT
We have a yearly camping trip with my mom's side of the family. My mom, her siblings, their kids and grandkids/great grandkids all go. My BIL's parents and sister also join us. My one uncle and his wife come up from California and my aunt and uncle come over from eastern Washington.
I love it and I love that we do it once a year. We also get together on New Year's Day, but my out of town relatives don't always make it up/over for that gathering.
My mom is the oldest sibling and both of my grandparents passed away years ago. So this is it for that side of the family. Just aunts/uncles and cousins. But it's great to see them and be part of each others lives.
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Post by jameynz on Aug 1, 2017 20:08:45 GMT
When my MIL passed, her children, including hubby decided that they would get together every year in March/April for a dinner, just the children and spouses (there are 6, so dinner for 12). Started off in a restaurant, but his family is cheap so it was decided to do pot-luck and have it rotating at sibling's homes. So once in 6 years, everyone descends on our house. That is just his siblings. All siblings are married, only one BIL & his wife don't have children - everyone else has children, grand children, and even great-grand children (not me though, touch wood FAR too young  Only twice, in the 30 odd years we've been married has there been a reunion and it was massive - and some didn't turn up (overseas, broke, no interest and other various reasons) MY side of the family - no one has suggested it and thank goodness for that! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 20:24:32 GMT
If our family reunion was still going on, the thing that married my brother would've in all her glory there! Then she could pretend she had good roots, instead of the trash heap she came from.
It would be worth going to one reunion to watch those pretentious holier-than-snobs, knock her back to her heap.
All so politely done too. Those people made queen Elizabeth look like a rebel.
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My dad had several siblings. Those never ended well. I try to go to mine each year, but it involves camping. 
I'm in charge next year. 
