Giving the Internet its Due

My mom

Today I spent Easter with my aunt. My aunt, two cousins and their families. These are people I didn't know existed until just a few months ago. I was hesitant to attend their Easter dinner, didn't expect to really connect with these people, but wanted a chance to meet them all, at least once.

Oh boy. I had fun. As people were laughing, and talking over each other, and pulling out games to play, I found myself saying (more than once) "I think we really are related."

All of this came about through the magic of the internet and Ancestry.com. Mostly, I think the internet is a huge waste, and social media a freakish thing best steered clear of.  But this is one instance when I wish the internet had been available a long time ago.

I think my mom would have really liked her sister. The one she never knew she had.