On a day-to-day basis, I can kind of forget that we’re an ocean away from our friends and family.
But sometimes, there’s a day that makes it really hard to forget.
Like when your nephew is born. Or your other nephew has a birthday party and then has the audacity to follow that up with actually turning 3.
And on those days, being an expat is really hard.
I still live in the same country as my family, but do to circumstances neither my aunts nor I could control, we missed about twenty years of each other. I’ll be 22 in September and one of them has asked me to be Godmother to her son (due in 5 weeks but I probably won’t see him for months, maybe even longer). The important thing is that you let them know how much you love them because that’s what truly matters in family.
So, have you tried Skype?
Haha, absolutely. We Skype and FaceTime a lot. But it’s just not the same.
And right now, Andy’s aunt from TX and uncle from CA are in Peoria and it just feels weird to not be there.