Prompt # 35 - Aunts and Uncles

Prompt # 35 - Aunts and Uncles

I seem to have missed a week. Aunts and uncles. Well, maybe it's just that I have too many to mention. My father had seven brothers and six sisters, and that meant seven sisters-in-law and six brothers-in-law. My mother had two sisters, three brothers, two brothers-in-law, and three sisters-in-law. Plus we had three great-aunts (Hilda, Ethel, & Beatrice) and one great-uncle (Bill), and we also called my grandmother's cousin Uncle E., so that makes approximately 40 (plus a couple of second marriages), of which about 14 are still with us. If I am lucky, I get to talk to or visit some of them once a year. When I lived with my parents, we lived closest to my father's family in Manitoba. Dad helped one brother buy the farm next to ours. My mother's relatives lived thousands of kilometres away. Those who were in British Columbia we visited about every other year.