Futzin Resting In Aunt Nikki’s Arms
This Memorial Day weekend, I went to Fergus Falls to celebrate the birthday of another family member. This time it was Andrew who turned one year old.
Drew has the nickname Futzin which was his father’s nickname when he was a small child. Grandpa Olson gave him that name and it stuck. Now it has been passed on: linking great grandfather with the present.
For normal families, families that live out their lives humbly without pretense of greatness, it is the little things that make us immortal: a nickname that is passed down through the generations, a story about growing up on a farm, some memory that touches the soul of the family.
Hopefully, this picture of Drew and Aunt Nikki contributes to another family moment. It is the beginning of another life, a new chapter in a family’s journey through time.