Radio Blogs: Kaelin's Family Traditions!

Kaelin worries about her family keeping up with their traditions after her grandparents passed.

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Thank you, dear blog. So hit us up if you
can relate to this. But I just feel like our grandparents' generation,
like they were built different in terms of keeping like
families together and being the matriarchs.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
It's just, Yeah, they were tougher people than we are. Tougher,
they're bill different.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
They had different I don't know if it's values or
they just kept kind of the family together right, and
so they put Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Think I think their level of commitment and their toleration
of things that now would be divorceable offenses correct for
twenty minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, that kind of thing, undiagnosed mentally ill.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
You know, I feel for that.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
I used to look at my grandma and be like, like,
you don't even know what's going, you know whatever. Anyways,
so I digress. But on my mom's side, we unfortunately
lost uh my my mom has two sisters, so three girls,
both of my grandparents within a short period of time.
And their house was kind of like the house that
kept everything together, you know, even if you weren't close

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with certain family members, you'd still see them whatever. So
once we lost them, you know, it was kind of
we were looking to my parents' generation to kind of
like keep things together, and everyone's busy.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
It was hard to lose their parents.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
So they're not really doing it, and not for bad reason,
and it's just it's a lot.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Life is a lot.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
So there's six of us cousins and we have kind
of taken taken it upon ourselves to like try and
recreate some of those traditions. We live in different places,
and it's not as easy as it looked, you know
what I mean, because it'll be like each holiday will
be like, oh, who wants.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
To have people over.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
I don't feel like doing it.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
I don't feel like doing it.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
So we're we have this cousins group checks and we
are very much trying to take this responsibility.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
On one thing that we.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Did together, which would be your absolute nightmare, Fred, but
we did a what it's called a houseboat on Lake Cumberland. Yes,
it was all fair body and a body of water.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Nope, big old boat. There was like a hot time
and it's fly.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, and we all did it together and it was
so fun, and so we're that is one of the
things that we are trying to plan and do. My
sister was a whole ass baby when we did that trip,
so she never got to experience it. And I do
feel like also the babies of the family, Kiki, you
may be able to relate like sometimes like the older ones,
like they grew up in the family was still fun
and still had their stamina. And by the baby, it's like,

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you know, we don't feel like putting stuff together. You
missed out on all the trips and all the memories.
So we're trying to do all this and it's not
as easy as it looks. And I just don't know
if any of our listeners feel like, you know, okay,
we lost the center point, either the house or the
people that kept everything together, and how they're working to
either make new traditions or bring it together, because you know,
it's sad to watch it go away.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
It's amazing, whether it's family or friends, as people get older,
it's very difficult to sort of keep relationships as strong
as they once were. Yeah, and proximity is a big deal,
even if you're in the same city. Like a lot
of I don't have cousins, but like my close friends,
over the years, they've their lives have change, they've had
kids and gotten married, and they're doing different things that

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I'm doing, and there's no lack of love. But they
live in the suburbs and they get together over things
that have to do with kids, and they don't include
me in that stuff necessarily because well they don't think
i'd want to go, because I don't necessarily want to
watch their kids run around like a play place or whatever.
But I would because But whether it's family or friends,
like it's just people spread out and there's no lack
of love there. But it's like it happens probably once

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a month where I reconnect with someone at least briefly
from the past, and it's like, why don't we talk
more often? I don't know, why don't we hang out?
I don't know, let's do it. And then another year
goes by, and so you have to work at stuff like.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
That, and it's a lot of work, you know. So
if you're going through the same thing, I feel you.
And if you have any ideas, you know for how
to keep the family and traditions together, shoot on my wist,
Well I want to do.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
I'm going to rent a houseboat and put all my
buddies and their wives on the boat. But then I'm
going to have a cabin so we dock there. But
then at the nighttime, we just set that boat out
to the middle of the lake or vice versa, whatever,
as long as there's a place for or maybe there's
a little dinghy attached to it, and I row myself
to the days in on the dock.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
You know what I'm saying. Yeah, that's a great one.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
I'm married to a family like this, Kalen, so with
the like the cousins thing and the closeness. So Hobby
comes from a really big family and there's like a
lot of co and then like you're right, it's like
the older crew than the baby crew, who are like
the twenty year old now they did not experience from
the stories that I've heard of, like all the get
together is the family parties. Even true, it was ate,

(05:11):
it sounds like, I mean, I missed the jukes out
wasn't there. But I feel like now Hobby is trying
to be that glue because his father is so his
father's kind of the glue after the parents, the grandparents
passed away I think twenty nineteen, maybe he's trying to
be the glue because one day, you know, his father
won't be able to anymore either. Yeah, but it's hard
work even just hosting, entertaining all of that, Like I

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don't know how people do that.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
So that it might be your house and that's that's
a lot of work. But it's also such a beautiful thing.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
It is, And I love saying that because I want
my daughter and that I have a baby, I want
her to be like with the cousins and the crew.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yes, yeah, we also just as an offshoot, speaking of
entertaining at your house, can we talk about something that
just went it just it was.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
It came and went off the air.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
But you are looking to sort of develop your backyard
a little bit, you know, because you want to have
people over to the house, and Hobby this idea was
for this kind of entertainment, so that cousins can come over.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Hobby's idea was to put a porta potty in the
backyard of your home.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
He was very serious about this, So let's not laugh.
There actual porta potty. Yeah, in your back You're permanent inside.
I don't care. That would just stay there all the time.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
He was serious, and he was so serious. He said,
you know, people don't have to go inside. Then the
here's use the port of potty. I said, sir, are
you sick? Like what are you talking about? I want
to see you tell my mother or your mother, so
use the bathroom to go crap in the in the
in the pot like go. I would love to see
that happen.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
There's a lot I'd like to unpack about that, but
I like that.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Like if you go to ether if you like an
event like something whatever, and they just aren't enough bathrooms
for the mass public that shows up, okay, fine, Like
I go to a port a potty if you have to,
Oh my guess the worst possible thing. Like I try
everything not to have to do it, but I'll go
pee in there whatever. I don't know who peed before
me or after me, I don't know, But can you
imagine like crapping on top of your relatives crap all day?

Speaker 1 (06:58):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
I try to be gross, but like I can see
everybody who's used that. These are people I know. I'm
in there following people. I know, we're just it's just
it's a disgusting thing. It's plumbing at home. I don't
know why.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
When did you guys get that? That's cool? Congratulations A
long way plummy