The gift of Family

~ Gottfried

Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts. Our shared family trait is crazy. If your family doesn’t make fun of your struggles then are they even family? Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. One day I can tell my grandkids I’m older than touch screen devices and watch the look on their faces.

Family is like an annoying itch you cannot scratch. Every mom understands that no one in the family appreciates that they stay up all night thinking about them. In family life, love is the oil that eases the friction. The cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. Go to bed mom, you’re not going to change anything.

Family. A little bit crazy, a little bit loud, and a whole lot of love. Hurt me, you’re going to feel pain. Hurt my best friend, you’re going to need an ambulance. Hurt my family…. I’m going to need a shovel and a bean bag. I know you’re wondering about the bean bag, I’ll need to rest after shoveling all that dirt.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. Families are like fudge; sweet with a couple of nuts. Having a child makes you a parent; having two, you’re a referee. Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.

A family reunion is an effective form of birth control. In my family, crazy doesn’t skip a generation. My family is temperamental. Half temper, half mental. Remember, as far as everyone knows we are a nice, normal family. Knowing your family so well, you can tell who’s coming down the stairs by the sound of their footsteps.

I sustain myself with the love of family. Family is where life begins and love never ends. There’s nothing like a family vacation to make you appreciate a bit of separation. Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school, I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

Strangers think I’m great. My friends think I’m eccentric. My family knows that I am completely insane. In my family if you’re normal then you’re adopted. In this house we are thankful. We give second chances. We give hugs. We laugh a lot. We do loud really well. We never give up. We love. And if you’re being naughty…

You get smacked

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60 thoughts on “The gift of Family”

  2. Oh Dear Lord Mr. Gottfried my Wife’s

    Family Looks Like the United Nations

    One Of Every Kind and Type For Real

    Yet My Father’s Side

    Oh Goodness is

    More Like The

    End of the Lines

    And That’s Why i’m
    Gonna Continue to
    Make A Big Bang WHiLE

    i Am Here Hear

    Or At Least Leave
    A Few Fumes oF
    Free Dance And Song

    Other Than That Life Smells Great!
    And The Family Is Mostly DoinG AS Expecting..:)

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          1. Hehe Mr Gottfried
            This Isn’t excactly
            ‘Schitt Creek’ or ‘Green
            Acres’ or Even the Other
            Side of That Coin ‘The

            Beverly
            Hillbillies’
            Yet Where i
            Live Literally
            In The Past Yes
            Called “Scratch
            Ankle” And Before
            That God Yes “Hell”

            As The Folks Landing
            On The River Banks
            Off Of Old Ships Yes
            Crowded With Briar

            Bushes Delivering

            Pine to This Mill

            Town Were not
            Happy Campers

            Leaving Enough
            Dark Pine Resin

            In The River
            Where i
            Am Raised

            On That Same
            Plot of Land Down
            Town on The River
            Front Named Black
            Water River True Trivia

            Too They Changed

            The Land i Was
            Raised On To
            A Town Park
            To Celebrate
            4th Of July
            Events and
            The Such With
            Bands on The
            Blackwater River

            And That Was Before
            The Local’s Even Named
            me Famous, Hero, And
            Living Legend For A Holy

            Fool’s Dance In Public
            9 Years And 6 Months
            17,899 Miles And Oh!
            By The Way Today

            “Fat Tuesday”

            Is Our 33rd Anniversary
            Next Big Event My Wife’s

            Birthday

            On Easter

            Jesus F in Christ
            Most Folks Don’t
            Even Know Our

            “Real”

            Names
            Except
            The Folks
            Who Give
            Away SMiles

            Every Where They
            Go Wife “Eve” The Boss

            Of
            me of
            Course

            And The
            Supervisor
            Of Our Modest
            Garden Of Eden
            Accommodations

            This Go Around

            Stay

            Still the
            Only One
            Cheers Dear
            Mr Gottfried
            May you Attain

            Similar Riches
            In Life For Being Foolish🃏🥂

            i Share the “Depth of
            The Story” On The
            “Wrong Planet”

            All 2.4 MiLLioN
            Words Now With

            Select Members Of

            The Community
            THE Entire “SonG
            oF mY SouL” EPiC
            Longest Long Form

            Bible Poem 11.4
            MiLLioN Words
            In 9 Years And
            6 Months Too

            Oh God Yes Yes

            Is Just Too Big
            oF A River to
            Open Up with
            Even Newest
            iPhones Yawn

            Technology
            Falling Behind

            Drowning

            Once Again

            As i Whip Its
            Ass ‘Terminator 2’

            Style

            Yep

            Once

            Again
            Coming
            To Get The
            Damned Job Done 👍

            In
            “Hell”… 😈 🔥 😇

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