Thread:Tooniee/@comment-5278765-20141031211041/@comment-5278765-20141102183605

I'm not close with my mom's side of the family at all. That grandpa is dead and my grandma and aunt and a couple cousins live in Texas (and are all much older than I am). And then an uncle (or maybe both) live in Colorado with the rest of my cousins there. Those are both a few days away if you drive. My dad's side counsins all live in this state, but we're not close as adults, so I don't see them much. One of my mom's brother's kids died earlier this year, but I barely even remember meeting him and it was almost 20 years ago that I last saw him. Since the US is such a large country, it's not uncommon for people to have family over a thousand miles away. Right now, all the family that I'm close to lives in this state, but that might not be true forever. When I was a kid, my parents and siblings and I lived in Texas, so we were far away from my dad's parents.