So. Freaking. Proud! (aka "When did my cousins grow up?")→[More:]

My dad has nine brothers and sisters. Of the 10 of them, half do not have kids for various reasons. My dad and his youngest sister are tied for the least number of kids (2). I think one of them has five kids, but I can't remember if it was Ermie or Toots (yes, those are their real nicknames).

The website I'm linking to belongs to a male cousin who is slightly younger than I am. He is the most artistically talented of his siblings, nay of the entire clan of cousins. He's been struggling to be happy in his chosen profession for so long, so to see him start up his own business with a strong website makes me, well... see the subject header?

And that reminded me of a Yahoo!Messenger conversation I had with another younger cousin of mine in the Philippines who got pregnant, and then got married, who had been talking about how a co-worker had partially sexually harassed her at a company Christmas party. (No "holiday party" for them, thankyouverymuch... the Philippines is predominately Catholic!) She used a term that is synonymous to "fuck buddy" in an email detailing what happened to the family ML and I was so shocked that one of my baby cousins (who is in her twenties) knew what that term meant!

And then I hear from a second cousin (dad's cousin's daughter) who is now at UC Santa Barbara. I freaking babysat for her with my mother! I watched her get her diapers changed! And she's in college???

Way to start the countdown to the big 30...