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The Joys of Extended Family

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Yes, two in one day.  

I've been meaning to discuss this one and well a few too many Facebook posts by someone on one subject only and here I am.

The daughter of one of my first cousins (1st Cousin Once Removed) is not just into essential oils.  Oh no.  See, she's gotten into pandering Young Living Essential Oils on her Facebook page.  So in addition to her redecorating efforts, her real estate stuff, fitness and healthy eating,  and non stop photos of her son I now have never ending posts about EO's.  Mind you, I like essential oils.  But I'm not dealing in them.  Nor do I make every time I blink about EO's.  

I'd hide her from my page, but this is how I keep up with my extended family.  If you include my mom and crazy aunt there are 4 generations of us.  Granted, both Mom and Crazy Aunt have dementia and neither has grandchildren.  There are 14 acknowledged (and one that the crazy aunt and my late grandmother refuse(d) to acknowledge) in my generation - not including spouses.  I'm not going to take inventory of the next two generations.  

But every time I see the EO posts I think of FJ.  

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HerNameIsBuffy

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14 acknowledged - I love that!  I have a huge extended family, only two of whom I've spoken to a couple of times in the 20+ years since my mom died.  None of whom have seen my eldest kids since they were in pull-ups and none have met my youngest.

In my world I'm outside of the X acknowledged number. :)  I've been thinking about mine lately - sometimes the estrangement bothers me and there are a couple of elderly relatives I'd like to say something to before it's too late.  Nice stuff - no scab pulling - just closure in a sense.  

Then I read things like this and I think ...there are so many of them you just know one will be annoying me about Amway or Pampered Chef if I opened that door...so maybe it's not so bad.

But I do have to say "dealing in essential oils" sounds like the most bad-ass frou frou occupation ever.  I'm picturing arms dealer type settings in secret rooms, code names, goons patting everyone down to make sure no one is wired before coming around the table to negotiate movement of lemongrass oil through each other's territories.  

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I think I was an adult before I learned about the secret cousin.  Along with 'we don't even know that it was his child.'  And at that point the uncle in question had already passed so it wasn't like anyone could ask him.  My generation did a lot of eye rolling over it all.  And crazy aunt made sure that she excluded the unacknowledged in her will.  The bitter irony is that with dementia I doubt anything will be left of her estate.

Ah sales.  I have a friend that sells jamberry.  But she keeps a separate Facebook ID for it.  A coworker who periodically peddles the latest whatever that has parities - candles, oils, jewelry etc.  Plus whoever has children selling things for schools and such.  

The essential oil stuff was not annoying when my first cousin the new age guru did it because she mainly set herself up with doTerra so that she could pay a lower rate.  And she didn't turn her posts into things like 'I just sterilized the whole house with flouncy oil.  you really have to do this.'  Nonsense.   And the EO companies annoy me because hey pyramid scheme (and I survived going to church with multiple mona vie dealers).  

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