I’m a day late with these pics. My late (alas) cousin Teri’s daughter Anastasia’s wedding was on Veteran’s Day two years ago. I once loved going to weddings but I am so over them now. But I would not have missed that wedding for anything.

My cousin Teri lost both of her parents by the time she was in her early twenties. Her dad was my mom’s brother and he died unexpectedly. As a side note, I was a freshman in college when he died and my moominbeach friend Barb Mullin was the person who told me about it. She was chaperoning a Sault band trip to my college and I’m sure my parents connected with the Mullins to let me know about that. It was all over the news after that because my uncle was the director of the state DNR but that would be a whole ‘nother story. Or not. But they didn’t want me to hear about it via the news although now that I think of it, I’m not sure why they didn’t just call me? My dorm room had a phone. I think…

Anyway. Teri (and a lot of the rest of us, including me) did not really know where we were going in life at that time and for a while we didn’t really have contact with her. This was NOT a family feud in any way, shape, or form. It was just young people trying to find their way in this crazy world and not necessarily wanting to ask for help from aunts (like my mom) for whatever reason.

We eventually got reconnected. Teri, after some waitress jobs, got a teaching degree and became an uber-cool middle school counselor. And I seem to fall into tech jobs and own them.

All those years, my mom kept reaching out to Teri and her older sister Sally and after Teri had her daughter, she accepted those communications more actively. Teri and Sally first brought Ana(stasia) up to visit the moomincabin when she was, uhhh, maybe two? We all loved on her and as she was growing up, she fit into our branch of the Fin/MacMu family, learning to drive The Indefatigable (jeep Wrangler) with the GG and whatever FinFam cousins were around, when she was like 10 years old.

So yes, I didn’t miss Ana’s wedding and here are my beach urchins as we were boarding a bus with Ana and her new husband just outside. And the second pic is Teri and me in the moomincabin with Teri making a goofy face. Luv you cousin. Miss you but so glad we had so many good times together.

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