Dare to be Stupid

If you have ever seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding then you have an idea of what my family is like. We are “big and loud and everyone is in each other’s lives like all the time and we just sit there eating, eating, eating” and I LOVE it! The Easter scene in that movie is practically what my family acts like on Easter. Traditionally we all get together on Easter: my aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. My family is insane, if you ever meet them you will understand me a lot better.

I am blessed to have my entire family live so close that we can get together for things like this for years and years now, the “Lee Family Easter Get Together” is very much a tradition I love. My mother always brings this super yummy cream cheese dip for strawberries, we eat a meal together, we talk, hunt Easter eggs, and do whatever we want! My family never fails to cheer me up whenever we spend time together.

My family is crazy and we all know it. Crazy in the way that we could totally have our own reality TV show. We all get along so well but just what occurs during these events when we are all together is so unique and funny. Conversations can go from chemical burns to lighting fires in the bathroom in a matter of seconds. And yes, apparently the bathroom was lit on fire (not while we were there) but apparently my cousin was not allowed to start fires outside…. so he started it in his bathroom. I wasn’t kidding when I said we could have our own reality TV show!

In My Big Fat Greek Wedding during the Easter scene they were dancing and we kind of did something similar. My uncle has an X-Box Kinect so we played dance central (which I won both times I played in Soulja Boy and Poker Face). We get so into it, we look like fools but we don’t care. We are family and having so much fun just being dorks together.

This family is also full of courage to be stupid. Sometimes that stupidity is what keeps us so strong. No one in my family is stupid (everyone in my family are some of the smartest people I know), but I have witnessed some of the dumbest things occur when I am with them. That makes it always interesting though, you never know what will occur. Our next family event that we were coming up with involves either a zip-line in the backyard, tractor tire bumper car things, or the human bubble (it can fit a human being in it and then they run around) and then being pushed down a hill. Yes it sounds so incredibly dumb, but so much fun! Everyone in my family is brave enough to say whatever is on their mind, even if it makes absolutely no sense. I have so much respect for that, for a group of people to be so comfortable around each other that you don’t have to worry about what you say they will love you unconditionally and if anything join in on the craziness.

To live life to the fullest you have to be brave to be a little stupid at times. Otherwise things just get boring. These moments with my family remind me why I started this blog: to cherish the little things. Every time my brother tried to dance to The Jerk, hearing my cousin talk about her atrocious hair dying experience, watching the candid video of my uncle singing, and any of the thousands of wonderful memories I have with them, I will remember those moments forever. God has blessed me so much to give me a family I am so close to and can just have so much fun with. I can dare to be stupid and enjoy the little things in life.