Last week my daughter turned 13.

I started doing some math that I had previously and purposefully neglected.

I started to realize that most people have grandchildren

when they still have kids of their own at home.

Since my youngest is 4 and my older two are now 13 and 10...

that is likely that will happen at our house too.

Weird.

But then I think about my youngest cousin,

she's pretty wonderful.

{This is her, post bath}

Her and I are 33 years apart,

and it doesn't matter.

She is a smarty.

She can count to ten in Spanish.

She's not yet two.

Her parents are amazing.

Not a little amazing, a lot amazing.

And it just goes to show, you never know what you are going to get

or who you are going to get

in your family

in the years to come.

So, I am putting my calculator away,

no need for math.

What family we get and when isn't up to me anyway

and no matter what,

it will always be a blessing.