Winter Love

I have a brother who is 18 months younger than me. He was married once right after college, and divorced after a few years with no children. At almost 50, he had settled into his single life, and had a variety of interests to keep him busy.

Then about 3 years ago, he re-connected with a woman he had dated in high school. She too had been married with two children, and then divorced. But she says that she never quit loving my brother. A few months after getting back together, they were married. That means there were 33 years from the time they first dated until the wedding. Just goes to show – love can bloom in the most unlikely of times/places.

The marriage meant that my sister-in-law and her one daughter that was still at home moved from Texas to Minnesota – now that’s true love. It has been one of the biggest blessings in my life to have the two of them here. And to see the love in my brother’s eyes for them – well that’s priceless.

My neice is a dancer and while on a kayaking trip around the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, my brother photographed some still shots of her “dancing on the water.”

My brother is also into making movies these days. So, when my neice went off to NYU to go to college this fall (she was accepted to the the Tisch Dance School there – but who’s bragging anyway?), he made this to remind her of her new home. Some introduction to things you’ll see in this video include: (1) the combining of their households meant her chihuahua’s living with his huskies, (2) you’ll get to see my Pax at her first meeting with her cousin Daisy last Christmas, and (3) you’ll also see my sister-in-law’s first grandbaby, Bella.(click on the picture to play)