So I watching 'Dan in Real life' which is about a man with three beautiful girls that are almost all grown up and he's having a hard time being both mother and father and they are starting to push him away as teenagers often do. In the movie Dan and his parents, his brothers (their are three) and all of their children get together in a large cabin in the woods for a week of family fun.
There was one even in which they were all hanging out in the living room, all doing different things: singing, playing the piano drawing, reading, playing checkers... and kep in mind that there are at least 15 people in this family all in one living room. There was another scene in which they all had to all perform in a talent show.
I was watching this movie and I find myself yearning for that future. A big family, with all the usual problems but... when they're all the same room just together enjoying themselves and their family. I want a bif family one day, I want yearly trips like that.
I have memories of large family gatherings on holidays where they made music and scrumptious feasts. I failed to appreciate them until they were no more, but I do have the memories from portraits and recordings made upon my grandfather's magic machine.
Sir MikelMine ears can hear my parent, grandparents, and two great-grandfathers as well as an assorted aunt, uncles and cousins.
When they gathered together, everyone talked at once and on a different topic - a cacophony at best but I do miss it greatly.
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