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Cougar cousins: Amy, Supermodel bride to be Robin, Susan, me,
Sarah, Megan, Angela, Tami. There were a few non cougars that joined us,
but they are not pictured here.

This weekend while I was camping out with my cousins, my cousin Susan mentioned that she wanted me to make sure I blogged about the weekend. In response to her request, I decided that I should take down notes about interesting things that happened. I only ended up with one note:

When my sister was done with her meal at the restaurant, she got out her Nelgene bottle and poured her ice water into it. She said it was good water and she wanted to take it with her.

Looking back, I think it is a good sign that I didn't write down more. I was having too much fun to take down good notes. My family attends the same campout twice a year and it is always a wonderful time. This time was a little different though.

My cousin Robin is getting married in September, and we decided that all the girl cousins should take her out to dinner kind of as a batchelorette party. I have to say "kind of" because poor Robin is one of the younger ones in the crowd and the older half of the crowd wasn't up for crazy parties anymore. We did make an attempt. We all dressed up in our coolest clothes and looked like a lovely bunch of cougars out on the prowl. Perhaps we would have been very popular at a dance club.

When we got to the restaurant, we had to wait an hour before being seated. My sister Amy is really good with games and came up with a game where we would all write two facts about Robin. One would be true and one would be false. After we all wrote them down, they were read aloud. It was hilarious, but I felt kind of bad for Robin. The true comments mostly fell into three categories, an embarrassing childhood crush, embarrassing accidental childhood nudity, and ice cream. No one mentioned how Robin is really good at sports, that she is always nice about getting people treats from the dessert tent, or how quickly she picked up playing "part of your world" on the piano. No one remembered that she is the star of the family volleyball team.

The next day we were all talking about what would come up if we played the game about other family members. One cousin had a boob pop out of her bathing suit, another two had childhood mullets, and another accidentally peed on someone.

It got me thinking, that I don't know what mine would be. What would they say if they played the game about me? I am not fishing for stories here, I am just wondering if I don't have any moments like this, or if, in MY head, they just run together with the rest of my life.

What do you think?

PS: If you want to share a story, I would love it. I just don't want you to think I am begging for one.