Graduation!

This weekend, my cousin officially graduated from college!  It was so nice to be here to celebrate one cousin's birthday and another cousin's graduation with a family day!

There's our girl getting her diploma! 

It felt right to be able to be at a special family event like this.  I have not regretted my choice to be overseas the last three years, but the hardest part of being away has been missing family and especially at milestone days like this.  

Jane Howard (English novelist) wrote, "Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.  Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."  So very true.