A Word on Litters (or Families)

I promise we are a "normal" family!

Family is not important thing, it is everything. - Michael J. Fox

Families are a wonderful thing! (Well most of the time.) About 95% of the time families can be loving and supportive and fun. The other 5%, well families can be a pain in the butt and you may want to strangle them. However through all of the worst parts of a family you still love them.

I have always said about families that you don't have to like them, but you do have to love them. This has helped me keep my sanity when family members are driving me to drink or making me lose my marbles (or ball of yarn, which every you prefer). I put up with the bad because I love my family, and they bring me an immense amount of joy. If it were not for them, I wouldn't be the person I am today and I wouldn't have a strong foundation for myself to grow upon.

ALL THE LITTLES!!!

I have found that families do not always have to be biological. I not only found a new family when I went to college, but I found two new families. I decided (after years of thinking sororities were horrible) a home within a group of women who were strong, beautiful, independent, smart, funny and everything I could every imagine who supported me and wanted nothing but the best for me. I couldn't believe that I, the sporty and outdoorsy tomboy had joined a sorority. But I found, just like in any family, I was accepted and loved with open arms and for who I was. I also was blessed to find a Big Sister who has always loved me unconditionally. (I was so excited because I had never had a Big Sister, and she would come running in the middle of the night if I ever needer her.) My Chi Omega family was and is still an important part of my life. Just like my real family, they support me and are there for me ever up and down life hands me. 

The work fam is "normal" as well...

I also found a family in work. People will tell you to love what you do. I think also you should love who you work with. I have one of the best jobs anyways, I get to watch sports and have fun while helping people learn and grow and have fun themselves. What else could I ask for? I also throughly enjoy the people I work with. Again, they say the people make the place, and this is most certainly the case when it comes to work. I have an Intramural family as well as my biological and Chi Omega families. They too support and accept me. I have gained as much from them as from my other families.

Family is important to me, therefore I sought out a work environment that cultivated this sense and created a family dynamic. I also sought out a sorority that fostered these relationships. I find that I was successful and motivated to stay in the field partly due to this fact. I am blessed in may ways to have many types of families, and I wouldn't trade any of them for the world.

In conclusion, families can be found and created in many places in life. All you have to do is work a little to create that family tie. At times they may frustrate and annoy us, or drive us up the wall with their quirks, but families are important because those are the people who build us up and there when the world tears us down to build us right back up again.