versatile: family

{La Petite and her Tonton}

Jersey and the Monkey was so kind as to pass on the Versatile Blogger award to me forever and a day ago, and since I'm only back from a weekend with my cousin Mrs. London, I thought I'd make the seven secrets about me, all about my family instead. Because you kind of are your family anyway, it's a DNA thing.

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1. My mother is one of eight but my father was an only child so my family is totally lopsided

2. And out of those eight Irish children on my mother's side; one moved to South Africa, one to London, another to Scotland, one to America (Hi Mom!), and one sailed the seven seas and came home calling himself the Duke of Marmalade. true story. We have accents out the yingyang.

3. My paternal grandmother's family was written about in this book and I think that's about the coolest thing in the whole wide world.

4. One of my first cousins (he's 21 years older than me and used to change my diapers) was one of Margaret Thatchers speechwriters. This is one of those things that is kind of cool and kind of not if you get my drift.

5. My father marched in Selma and on Washington with M.L.K., and in J.F.K.'s funeral procession. It absolutely kills me that he won't be there to tell the stories to my future children. (Sidenote: my father's mother, marched along with him on Washington and when I asked her to tell me about it, her response was, "it was hot". Thanks for being so succinct Nana.)

6. My mother is so smart she graduated school at 14. Hello Doogie Howser.

7. My brother is an actor and it's pretty surreal to be watching something like The Tudors and go, oh look, there's my brother.

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You are born with your family, can't change them, and are stuck with them forever, but I have to say, if I had to handpick my family, I would have picked the exact same people. 

They're totally coo coo for coco puffs,

 but I wouldn't have them any other way.

bisou

P.S. There are so many things that I would like to know about all of you, so if you're feeling versatile lately, and would like to share some facts, then this Versatile Blogger Award is passed on to you. Thanks for playing.