Cousins

    I found some of my cousins at Classmates.com.  It was great to find my cousins - we were good friends when I was a little girl.  My mother's cousin and her kids were so much fun to be around.  They were always laughing and so were we when my mother, brother and I were with them.
    Looking back, I'm wondering if anyone ever did this:  we used to call our cousins "Cousin" and then their name.  Like Cousin Ronnie, Cousin Natalie, Cousin Trudie, Cousin David, etc.  We are not from the south, we are from New Jersey, born and raised. We did this on both sides of the family, too.  I wish I had a dollar for each cousin I have!  I have a gazillion cousins.  We were raised around family get togethers.  It was awesome.
    I think that people used to stay put more years ago.  My dad graduated from the high school I graduated from, and I actually became friends with some of the kids of his classmates!  I couldn't raise my kids around cousins because the brother, Uncle Vito, moved his family to California and I moved "down the shore."  Good friends became "family."  Now some friends have moved away, too.  I think it sucks.

Comments

[Helen]

Hm..........never referred to cousins as "cousin blah, blah". Not a Jersey thing, that I know of!
But here's a good one for you! My Dad and I had the same 1st grade teacher!
Peace....................

[Janet]

I belong to Classmates too. I always wonder what my school buddies are doing these days. Those pictures are beautiful!

[Trudie]

Helen, that's because you left NJ before you became senile.

[melodyann]

Trudie, me and my cousins do the same thing. My cousin Angie's husband thinks we're nuts. So, of course I never miss an opportunity to call him "Cousin Art!"