Family Affair

I have a huge smile on my face right now, and there is only 1 thing that can cause such joy in my heart---my family. My father and stepmom are here right now in CA, and when they leave town, 5 days later my mother will be here. Ecstatic doesn't even come close to describing how I feel. Ever since I've been out here, I've been traveling home back and forth, and never once had the 'rents opted to come out here and visit my sister and I. I mean, they'd been threatening to for some time now, but I didn't really think it would happen. I just really LOVE my family, and am so happy for the time that I have with them right now. I LOVE the fact that they remind me of what is important, and that this world out here is not reality. Hell, it's not even home...well, maybe temporarily for the time being. I laugh thinking about how I took my fam on a ride through Hollywood and my father saw a "tall" woman with an extreme tan. "Eww, she looks like she sat in the tanning bed too long, she is burnt. Almost look like an orange!" LOL, that's my father for you, ever the comedian he is. My stepmom took a look at some skinny chick walking down the boulevard and quickly noted "Ooh, we don't have that problem in the south". The problem of anorexia that is, LOL. That's why I LOVE my family, because they have a simple way of putting things in perspective...by simply being themselves, loving me...and allowing me to LOVE them.