A lot of stuff has happened this weekend, and I had a killer time. The baptism was cool, and Izzy cooed then cried.
We celebrated Kayla and Ginny's birthdays today, even though they are/were next weekend and last week, respectively.
I hung out with Kayla (age: nearly six)
Ginny (age: twenty-five)
Gabby (age: twenty-something. A few years younger than Ginny)
Libba (age: forty-one), Jeff (age: same-ish to Libba. He's her "baby Daddy")
Izzy (age: four or five months. She's the "Baptizee")
Aunt Michelle (age: fifty-seven), and Uncle Chuck (age: same-ish to Aunt Michelle's. He's her husband, the guy with the brown-ish grey coat).
Libba, Ginny (Virginia), Gabby (Gabriella), and Ashley are all sisters. Ashley is missing...again. I'll get into more detail about that in a second. Kayla is Ashley's daughter. Ashley has another daughter, Kayla's half sister, Lola, but Lola lives with her Daddy, I don't know where. Ashley was into drugs...bad...for a long time, and she ran away a few times. They always found her pretty quickly, though, I guess. Then, her Mom, my Aunt Michelle, said that if she was going to run away, just not to call her, because she just couldn't deal with it any more. So...Ashley ran away again...and didn't call...for five years. Libba, however, went on a quest to find her. And did. Now Libba has a organization called Outpost For Hope, which helps families find their missing relatives. Turns out, Ashley had gotten married, and pregnant, with Kayla. She came home, and was okay for a while. I even got to see her and Kayla together. That was the first and last time I'd ever seen Ashley. One night, she disappeared again, leaving baby Kayla in the apartment alone. I don't really know the details here, but I know she got a divorce from Louise (Kayla's Dad), and married Lola's Dad, whose name I do not know. She had Lola, and somehow, now, (again, I don't have the details) Ashley's gone again, and Lola stays with her Dad. Kayla has pictures of Lola in her room. The other day she said to me, "That's my sister, Lola. I miss her." Doesn't that just break your heart?
Anyway, now Kayla lives with my Aunt Michelle and my Uncle Chuck, the latter of whom I don't know very well. They spoil her rotten. I guess they figure since her life has been a big, fat load of crap that they should make up for it. The girl has more toys than I've ever seen in one home, much less the room of one little girl. I think she owns the entire toy isle of Target. No lie. For her birthday, I bought her a book. She has a butt-load of those, too, but you can never have too many books.
Okay, well, I leave tomorrow, so I just wanted to let y'all know what's been happening. Hopefully I'll get myself a snow globe, and hopefully I can come back soon. :) Ciao! -me
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