The Single Greatest Invention Ever is Family

I love my family.

You read that sentence without even really thinking about it. Your eyes brushed over it, and tried to find the next important thing. You started to look for the important part of this post, and by hurrying, you missed it. Let's think about that sentence, for just a little bit. I love my family.
If I wrote it a thousand times, I don't think I would ever be able to make you understand the way I feel about my family.
If I wrote it a thousand times, I don't think I would ever be able to make you feel the way I feel about my family.
If I wrote it a thousand times, I don't think I would ever be able to make you love my family the way I love my family.

I know that you love your family also, but let's be honest. No one ever thinks that there has ever been a love as strong as theirs. No one ever believes that others have felt this same feeling. No one ever thinks that others love as strongly as they do.

I just got done spending all day at Six Flags Great America. It was an experience. Many roller coasters were ridden, and I mean many. I'm laying in bed, and I still have that roller coaster feeling. But I spent today with my family. And it reminded me how much I love them.

We are absolutely, completely, 100% crazy.

There's no denying it. I sometimes feel sorry for people that are around us, (Matt and Brittany took it well) because we are so incredibly crazy. I feel like I should try to tone our craziness down, or that I should at least explain to the poor bystanders, but once we're off, it's incredibly hard to stop, kind of like a train wreck.

We are absolutely, completely, 100% stupid.

And I mean really, really stupid. From Joshua screaming like a little girl the entire way up the hill (and yes, you did read that right "the entire way up the hill"), pleading earnestly that they stop the coaster and let him off the ride. To us coming up with surprisingly well-matched words to explain the TV show that was on in Pizza Hut. To finishing 7 refills. (Do not ask)
We are really, really stupid.

They are absolutely, completely, 100% wonderful.

Each in their own way. They're wonderful. And I love them. I do. I love my family.




If you read my first Single Greatest Invention Ever post on books, you should know that I've been working through the Shakespeare Sonnets. When I finish them, I'll dedicate a whole post to them, since I have a lot of thoughts concerning them, but for now, I just want to leave you with one.

When I first read this, my family immediately came to mind. It was probably written to a significant other, but I don't have one of those, and it fits some of the way I feel about my family.
Like most great writings, it's not saying anything new, it's just saying it better than I can.

XXIX

When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state.
And trouble heaven with my bootles cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate.
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee,-and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my fate with kings.

The Single Greatest Invention Ever is Family.