Family reunions are the time to reunite with family members you haven't seen in a long while, and to meet distant cousins you might have never known existed.
Sometimes, because of busy lives, adoptions, or the nomadic nature of people, families are separated - for a year, or a decade, or more. Or fights among siblings or generations divide a family. And so...
I am a 67 year old mother of eight grandmother of 11. I'm not to gray headed as yet and I think I might be discribed as pleasingly plump, but I think it is more than that.