Family

For the past few evenings, we've been catching up on this season's episodes of Blue Bloods, which is a about  family where all the men were/all cops, starting with the grandpa and ending with the youngest son. The dad is played by Tom Selleck and he is the Police Commisioner.  Anyway, while I don't really watch too many cop shows, I like this one because it isn't only about being policemen, its about family.  They always show at least one scene where they are having their usual Sunday dinner and everyone is there, the daughter with her daughter, the son with his family, and the single son. 

And it made me think back to when I was a kid and we would go to family things (well, not my father who didn't like my mom's family and vice versa) and have Thanksgiving with the other half of Mom's family (who did like Dad and vice versa). (Confused yet?)   And when I met Ed and started going with him, we were always around family and having big dinners and hanging out. 

But somewhere, it all fell away and now almost no family.  Which makes me feel bad for Sean Michael because he only has us and his sister and his aunts.  I don't know if he really cares or not, but it still makes me sad for him.  I can remember having a lot of fun with my cousins and Ed's cousins and always having someone to talk to. 

I know Blue Bloods is just a tv show, but I think the concept of family dinners every Sunday is a nice thing to do.  And it makes me wish I had a big family to have that with; maybe not every week but once a month.

And then again maybe I am just old-fashioned liking that kind of stuff. It's kind of funny to think I'm old-fashioned in this modern world, but if it means family and family dinners, then I'm good with it.

A little old-fashionedness never hurt anyone....and could make for a better world. Too bad it's gone by the wayside.