I don’t know about anyone else, but I see my cousins all the time. Well, maybe not as much as I used to, but when we were kids… I saw them every day. Especially over the summer. They’re my best friends; of course, we all have our own separate lives and yeah, sometimes I get jealous when I see them off doing things with their friends, but I know one thing to be true: they’ll always be my people.

We have a weird bond that I can’t explain. We formed it over drinking hot cocoa at grandma’s in the winter and melting popsicles over the summer. We have this friendship that I seriously don’t think that anyone else understands and we don’t expect them to.

You grew up doing everything together.

There are some really good memories and some really dumb ones. It’s all because our parents were smart and kept us together as kids.

Your cousins know all your embarrassing moments.

They lived some of them with you

Looking at old photos always brings back an old story from childhood.

It’s never not fun finding pictures. We even reminisce at how cute we once were.

Sometimes you fight with them like sisters…

I can’t even tell you how many times I wanted to kill one of my cousins. We get on each other's nerves constantly. We fight and it’s so hard to be nice to them sometimes. But, I love them.

There is no shame in being honest with each other.

It’s really bad when we had this thing called a “truth time.” We’d sit on my grandma’s front porch and just basically tell each other the things we hated about the other person.

There also is so much pride when they do something good.

Nothing gets me more excited than when I hear good news about one of them excelling in their sports or in school. To be honest… I brag about my cousins a lot.

They always have encouragement for you.

Trust me, when you really need them, they are 100% there for you.

You don’t have to go searching for your bridesmaids… Because you have them already.

I wouldn’t want it any other way!