The Perspective of Family
That is a picture of Matthew and his lovely bride, Jen. They were married this past Saturday. Matthew is my first cousin, once removed, and he has given me an interesting perspective on my own kids.
In my family, I’m the youngest in my generation. I have cousins who are anywhere from 7 to 20+ years older than I am, and as a result, I have always been the ‘kid’ at family gatherings.
When all my cousins started having kids, I was stuck in the middle between two generations. For countless holidays, weddings, and other special events, I was at the ‘kids table’, entertaining kids in the play room, and so on.
Matthew is the oldest in that generation, and I can clearly remember seeing him shortly after birth. I don’t want to say ‘it seems like yesterday’, but in the thousands of days that have past since then, that one seems closer than most.
Two years ago he graduated from the Naval Academy, and this past weekend he got married.
This makes me both excited to see my own kids grow up and afraid of how fast it will happen.