Cruz Family Reunion

Going back to California and meeting with family that I haven't seen since the early 60's is, needless to say, disconcerting. However, I was spurred to go out of curiosity, and the need to have my kids meet relatives which they lacked having around while they were growing up. Living in the Boston area, they didn't have the chance to dress in their new clothes at Christmas and head over to someones house and have dinner. To hide under the dinner table, while the grownups played poker while reaching up and stealing sips of everyones boozy drinks like I did when I was young. I never knew who exactly was blood related to when I was a child. Every grownup was called "auntie" or "uncle", whether they were actual family or just friends. I was never quite sure which of those little kids running around were actually cousins. But you got to see them at family parties, weddings, baptisms, holidays and picnics.

So in honor of this momentous occasion, this blog is created to help keep in touch with each other. You can post pics, family updates, rants, raves, and inform each other of what's going on in our lives so that we don't lose track of each other.