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I looked down at my fingernails and noticed my glittery gold polish was almost gone.<\/p>\n

And it made me smile.<\/p>\n

It was a reminder. \u00a0A lovely reminder of being together with my family. \u00a0Just a matter of days ago we were all together laughing and talking. \u00a0Chloe, Audrey and I all sat in the noisy dining room around the 50’s style diner table and perused Krista’s delightful nail polish collection. \u00a0We took turns choosing our favorite colors and then painted our nails slowly. \u00a0We took time to let them dry before applying a second coat. \u00a0We stopped to admire our beautiful creations and took a picture to remember the moment. \u00a0Then we were onto our next activity.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to only see my whole family once a year. \u00a0There’s so much I feel like I need to cram into one weekend. \u00a0I want to take pictures of everything, but then I worry that I’m missing out because all I’m doing is taking pictures. \u00a0And then, inevitably, something doesn’t go as planned. \u00a0I need to remember that I am still a Mom and wife and it’s asking a lot of my family to submerge themselves into a house of people they also only see once a year. \u00a0There will be a temper tantrum or two. \u00a0There will be missed naps. \u00a0 I will get stressed and snap at Tim. \u00a0I spend weeks planning and plotting and anticipating and then I blink and it’s already done. \u00a0I leave wishing I had talked more to each person. Wishing I had hugged each kid again. \u00a0Wishing I had taken more pictures.<\/p>\n

But today I looked down at those faded fingernails and smiled. \u00a0It’s a good thing to wish I could see them more, because that just proves that I love them. \u00a0In fact, I would be worried if I wasn’t sad at the end of the gatherings.<\/p>\n

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I looked down at my fingernails and noticed my glittery gold polish was almost gone. And it made me smile. It was a reminder. \u00a0A lovely reminder of being together with my family. \u00a0Just a matter of days ago we were all together laughing and talking. \u00a0Chloe, Audrey and I all sat in the noisy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9994,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions\/9994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}