Family

Today our little family got to be four instead of three for a little while.  It had been about four years since we last got to see my husbands son, Chance, who lives in England. 

A day like today makes you think about what really makes you a relative to someone else.  Is it genetics? Yes and no. Is it proximity, being with each other day after day?  Or is it just simply a desire to be a family?  Have a place marked for you that says that you belong with others. 

While we don't get to see Chance often.  Seldom have the opportunity to communicate the way we would like.  We are family.  We are family because we have chosen that. 

So today under the watchful eye of the Hollywood Sign we had an opportunity to reignite that feeling of family.  As I look at those three faces in the picture above I see a genetic resemblance.  I also got to experience that desire that you have when you are with family to connect and feel passionately that you belong just where you are even if those physical moments of togetherness are much too far apart.