Cuzzo Crew

How do people do life without cousins?  It’s a foreign concept to me.  As much as they get on my nerves sometimes, I love them.  And I feel like they’re very necessary.

I have hundreds of cousins.  That’s not an exaggeration.  Between my mother, father, and stepfather, the numbers add up quickly.  I’m undoubtedly in more day to day contact with my cousins from my mother’s side of the family. 

Someone asked me and Bible Study Cousin if we were first cousins, and she said “yes.”  We’re not.  We’re second cousins but in my family that doesn’t matter.  A cousin is a cousin is a cousin.

So why do I think cousins are important?  They keep me grounded.  My entire family keeps me grounded, but my cousins are especially good at giving opinions…whether they are solicited opinions or not.  They make me laugh.  Especially when they get to arguing in our group chat.  And they keep me company.  Even when I want to be cut off from the world.

I keep getting the message that I don’t need to do life alone.  Doing life alone gets more tempting to me as I age.  It’s hard enough to deal with my own life issues.  But then I’m reminded that I need people in order to survive.

The Central Arkansas chapter of the family does a great job of doing life together.  We’re adding two new members in 2020.  One cousin is welcoming a little baby in the spring.  Another cousin will start his freshman year at the University of Central Arkansas in the fall of 2020. (Go Bears!!!!) 

We don’t have perfect relationships with each other, but they’re perfect for the season that we’re in.  We pray for each other, argue with one another, laugh at each other, eat with each other, talk about each other, and then whoop you if you say something about one of us.  Because we ride for each other.  And I think that’s a beautiful thing.  #wepreach