Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Today is our daughter-in-law's birthday.  My husband and I have the tradition of singing Happy Birthday over the phone for our kids and grandkids.  Dreadful harmonies, but we do our best.  And our family is getting so delightfully full that it feels like every other week we pick up the phone.  Our daughter-in-law has only been that for a year, but she is pregnant, so we were singing for two!  How amazing that when your kid marries, you get this new kid and all their family as well!  I enjoy her brothers, their wives, and their children.  I get excited when her older brother is having their second child.  The first has played with my grandson several times, and is quite a character.  We spent the Fourth of July together, and I loved the fullness of it.  The stretching with open arms of the boundary of family.  We're all the richer for it.