Vistin'

Visit - As in “We gon go visit with Paw Paw today” or “You better go visit wit Ant Sally, she been laid up with a broken leg for a week” or “I’m gon go visit Miss Jane next doa and brang her sum sweet pataters.”

Visit – It’s when your daddy brings you to see relatives you don’t know, but they remember you when you were only this tall. It’s when you sit around bored out of your gourd and strangers ask you how old you are and what’s your favorite subject in school. Or, as in one visit, the senile relative you’re visitin’ thinks you’re your father’s young new wife! You count the minutes which seem like hours until you can get out of the awkward visit.

Well, my cousin Nikki brought her three little girls to visit me yesterday. Somehow I went from the one having to go and visit, to the one being visited! On the other side of the “visit”, I was just grateful to see Nikki who I hadn’t seen in about ten years and to meet her little girls, my second cousins.

Sierra, Savannah, Santana & Me - I'm showing them my road trip on the map. Sierra was very impressed that I had been to New York because that's where all the famous people like Miley Cyrus go.

Cousins - Nikki, Drew, Justen, Darla. It's a little scary that the three of us ladies will be 30 this year...