After 7 long months I have finally sold my cottage in Vermont. Reality has just hit me that it will be weird when I still go up there to visit my family I won't have my own place any longer. Of course, I can thank my nephew for ruining this for me and for my kids. I have been waiting for months now to give him a peace of my mind even though my brother and sister tell me it isn't worth it but I have too in order to move on.

The buyer is a very close friend of the family and his father and my father worked together for many years. I am so glad that I didn't sell my half to my nephew as I feel that I sold it to the right person. My buyer has been wanting a piece of property right on the lake for many years and I know he will cherish the place as I have. In addition, he made a promise to my brother that if he should sell the place he will ask us first. We know he is looking at another piece of property right next door in which I hope he can get in the future. The lady that owns it rents it out to all sorts of nuts and wild parties go on at the house. The people that rent have no respect for neighbors so it would be nice the buyer can purchase this house.

We, my husband and I just got home after attending his sister's 70th birthday. My husband is the baby of 7 kids. To think the oldest is in his late 70s and my husband is 53. What an age gap. I keep thinking his mother had her first kid when she was 15 or so but she was 18. The other thought I said to him was his brother is just a few years younger than my Mother and she is 82 in May. Weird huh?

Here is another weird thought that I was telling a good friend that was at the party. My Mother is a twin. One could have kids and the other couldn't. Now, each had a husband that had cancer. Each a different cancer though. Both of the husbands died in November, 10 days apart but, a couple of years apart. Because they died in November where they live in the winter they both had to wait until summer to bury their husband's in Vermont and both being buried in July days apart and are side by side of each other.

I have other weird things with my family as well. As I said, my mother is a twin and she couldn't have kids but her sister could. Mom adopted 4 kids. Now, my father had twin sisters and one could have kids and the other couldn't. So one that couldn't adopted 3 kids. My mother's brother's wife was a twin. She couldn't have kids so she adopted 1 child. Do you realize the family is mostly all adopted children. Only 5 children are biologically connected. Only 3 adopted children are alive now.