A Familiar Tree

 

The last week of March, Joshua's preschool class did some lessons on Spanish and different cultures. His preschool aide - who is very sweet - is from Spain and did some various activities with the kiddos. They made a family tree, and I had to laugh when instead of "family tree" it said "arbol familiar" (which is the Spanish translation) because at first I thought that it was saying a familiar tree rather than family tree. ;-) I even know better!

Joshua had to color what each person would look like from himself (yo) to his brothers (hermanos) to his parents (mama and papa) and his grandparents (abuelos). While this would be a literal tree, with the divorces and re-marriages in our family, our tree doesn't look quite this familiar. Haa!!! We're missing some folks. :)

I saw this quote the other day and cracked up: "I shook my family tree and a bunch of nuts fell out!" Isn't that the truth? And yet, would we have it any other way?

Speaking of apple trees, the house on the corner with the beautiful apple tree we admire has gone up for sale. We looked at the pictures on the internet just for fun, and we couldn't believe how gorgeous it was on the inside as well. It's an identical layout to ours, but that house makes ours look like a dive in comparison. They weren't asking a whole lot for it either, much to our dismay, since all sales in the neighborhood affect our house value. As we predicted, it immediately went under contract. I was a little sad about it at first, but such is life. We still get to enjoy the view of the apple tree, and we still have great neighbors and a nice enough house. Truly, what really makes a house is the people who live in it. Those folks that are part of our "familiar tree."