Passover: An Excuse to Get The Family Gossip

Happy Passover! A holiday where you are suppose to drink at least four glasses of wine by the end of the meal and no one can get mad at you. I know every jewish family is big, but every year my family seems to multiply and the seder table gets longer. Here's how I sum up family time, it makes me grateful for my friends. Forget websites like TMZ and Perezhilton, I've got Nona Lucy, my great-grandmother, who is the sharpest woman I know, not only does she know whats going on with every member of her immediate family of 35, but she always has time to put on lip-liner and lipstick before a picture. My cousins have better networking skills then facebook, being strategically placed at different schools all over the city and all a few years apart to cover all their bases. Now its fun, but growing up I hated it, everyone knew everything about everyone, which my parents loved. Even living across the country my family knew about every roommate fight, night I went out, and snow storm I battled. Although it can be overwhelming, I honestly don't think I would have it any other way. I kinda feel bad for all those people with quiet, some what normal families, they miss out on all the stories. I could write a novel on just my relationship with my mother and grandmother, the three of us together are crazy, but we can't go a day without calling each other. Even though they drive me crazy sometimes, I love them all, I wouldn't fly back and forth just for weekends if I didn't. My family is my number one priority, which I have to explain every time I am half asleep in class tuesday morning after a weekend at home. To which ever relative is reading this right now, your my favorite, don't tell anyone! Sending out some family love on this holiday, have a good one.