Fam is always fam

Friday my brother-from-another-mother-and-father graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with his MBA.  He has already accepted his dream job offer in Chicago where he will move in June.

His sisters, brother, and parents came to the Lou to watch and celebrate.  It was great.

Seeing him graduate, his sister pregnant with her second child, and their youngest brother looking more and more like a grown-ass man was really awesome and at the same time surreal.

Being all together is like no time passed.  We are still able to talk and laugh and eat bowl upon bowl of cereal in the middle of the afternoon like we used to do over a decade ago when we all lived in the same city.  Of course, the conversations are older and we don't really enjoy reading the back of the cereal boxes anymore.  But, it was still great.

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We FaceTimed with the family in DC while they were all together for their regular Sunday dinners, of which I love the idea - especially the wine drinking.  Cute hair cuts were all over the place.  Then we FaceTimed with the family in Houston and saw Kid Sis #2 and nephew #1 (who is now 4 and not as young as in this post - but the picture in it is still so cute as he played with his little brother!) and nephew #2.

There is really something to be said for good friendships that last beyond distance, time, and even beyond infrequent conversations.

We are still cool no matter what.  They are still among my favorite people and our parents are still best buds as well.

Now, if only we could plan a get-away vacation and not have one member of the crew preggers, it would be great.  If we could go through a box of 100 freeze-pops in one day, it would be even better.  Since we all have our own places, we can even eat them all and not have to hide 80 of the wrappers from our parents.