Monday, September 20, 2010

Family Girl Power

Sue, Cathy, Julie, Me, Pat, Linda, Jennifer & Julie
My grandmother-in-law out-carnated last year (scroll way down to see my post about Deva Mary). This last week her daughters Linda, Sue (my mom-in-law), Pat and her daughter-in-law Cathy got together with as many of their daughters and daughters-in-law  as possible to celebrate family, estrogen, girl-power, and wine.

We toured the Applegate Valley wineries and vineyards via a 14 person stretch limo. 5 wineries, 25 - 30 tastes - its a good thing hot limo drive Casey was at the wheel and not me!

J's sister Julie, cousin Jennifer & me
We ate, drank, laughed, cried, shared, got to know each other better and celebrated good and hard the legacy that matriarch Mary Moore had left behind.

Me, Jennifer, Aunt Linda, M-I-L Sue
Family is a funny thing - you can know people for years and not know them. Or, in my case with my husband's cousins and aunts, you can know about them for years and not know them. But put 9 women together in a limo or a hotel room or the dining room at the country club, and suddenly you're friends. Suddenly the shared experience of blood, marriage, and ovaries transcends all boundaries and crosses all bridges.

The Julies in the foreground
This week pouring in the pleasure was easy since it got scheduled in for me without much effort. For now, its back to the ritualistic scheduling in of the sacred amidst the mundane. But, there's a happy, over-flowing-ness that followed me home from the family estrogen fest.  That sense of belonging to a group - a group of women that now has less to do with the fact that the only reason I know them is because I married my husband. Even from Medford, Aloha, Sacramento, Eureka, and Oklahoma - they've got my back, just because.

Sue, Pat, Julie in the Limo
Have the Reddest Day Ever!

In Grace,

Kell
J's sis Julie, Jennifer, Me, Cheryl, J's bro's wife Julie

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