All true, but the bright spot is this:
Your family actually cares for those kids. They take care to feed their growing bodies with good food, and their young minds and spare time with healthy, meaningful activities. They're not starving for attention and they're not getting pawned off on someone else to raise. They have the very best start they can get.
You can't set the world on the right path, but you can do things to ensure your niece and nephew continue to progress in the best way possible.
Yep, that's a good point and I feel happy that that's the case. It's difficult being the uncle and being so far away but I'm made to feel part of it. I was on video chat with my niece in Finland on her way to pick strawberries the other day. It was nice, we talked, she showed me the scenery and strawberry farm (which I went to with her when I was there last) and I felt I cluded.
I like to think I add some layers of value to their lives and when I'm gone and they get everything I have amassed in my life they see it as more than wealth, that they remember who I was.
As if they could forget! They're a little older now and you have already built many great memories with them. There's more to come, too, and I know you are so capable of creating lasting memories. You will always be 'cluded'😊
Little buggers, if they forget I'll haunt them!
My nephew is going to a rodeo today, I'm pretty jealous but he's looking forward to it. He said:
"Don't worry little buddy, I'll take some photos for you. Yee haa!"
He likes to talk like the Dukes of Hazzard. 🤣
lol @little buddy...He's thinking about you and making sure you are part of the day! He's taking care of his Uncle Bonkers lol
He's a good lad, always asks how I am, what's been going on at work, what I had for dinner...it shows he's thinking about someone other than himself and I promote it.
He has an awesome time at the rodeo on the weekend, we were talking about it last night. Heard all about him riding dirt bikes, on the dodgems cars, riding a horse and all about the riders/bulls and roping. He loved it.
He sure is (a good lad)! Someone that likes the Duke's...they're good people lol. He seems well rounded and I'm positive you've had a hand in that, as well as his parents of course lol
I probably let him get away with more in some aspects yet not in others. I guess I have some different things to impart that his parents can't. He's a very good lad though. Wears a cowboy hat well and says yee haa. What's not to like.
Exactly! He has boots to go with that hat I'm guessing? Now...he needs a rope, so he can practice ropin' 'em doggies 😂