Family

My family and I have always been super tight. Growing up, we kids liked nothing better than to stay home on the weekends and play with each other. Since I moved off to college, we've been a bit more spread out, but we've stayed close through phone calls, IMs, and video chats (not on Skype... good old MSN! :) Now my brother and sister are here with me going to school. Shauna lives with me. Jason's over in the freshie dorms, but we have lunch with him every Friday. We've all agreed that that's our favorite part of the week.

This past week my parents and baby sister were in town to celebrate Thanksgiving with us. It was SO FUN seeing them all! We also got to see our grandparents and all of our mom's side of the family.

Me and some of my cousins

I'm really grateful for a loving supportive family in my life. I honestly don't know what I would do without them.

Monsters

I spent years of my childhood convinced that monsters were real. My parents assured me over and over that they weren't. But I didn't listen. What if grownups were wrong? Maybe they just didn't know!

I've come to realize that even in my adult life, this kind of thinking comes back to haunt me. Older people (my parents, former professors) tell me I don't need to worry about something, but I do anyway. I think, what if they don't know? But they usually do.

Only here's the thing. I'm old enough to know that adults don't always have the answers, no matter how old they are. A lot of life you just figure out on your own.

So the real trick is figuring out...which situation am I in now?