Sibliving.
Four twenty-something-year-old siblings. One Medford Condo.Tree Trimming.
Growing up it was a Nevers family tradition to go and cut down a Christmas Tree the day after Thanksgiving. Mom, Dad, Grammie and Grampa — would all load up and pick out a tree. Last year was our first Christmas at the Gleason, so it was important (to Erik in particular) for us to cut down a tree per usual.
Last year’s experience wasn’t the best recreation of good times gone-by. Erik and I were the only two people available, so we drove up to Newburyport in his since-extinct Suburban. It smelled like gas to the point that we had to drive down the highway with the windows down. We got lost on the way to the tree farm, and it wasn’t the snowy yule-tide scene we would have liked. In fact, it was 60 degrees or so and muddy. Still partially driven by the fact that we could be a BIG tree becuase of our new high ceilings, Erik and I picked out a tree and he cut it down. Not sure how I could have helped exactly, but he remembers it as me not being of use. Ask him about it and he’ll likely say, “Yeah. Heather carried the saw.”
This year we decided to get one from Mahoney’s. Erik and his girlfriend Missy picked it out and everyone lent a hand it setting it up in our front room. Last year Erik fed the tree too much sugar water and the tree funked out; smelled awful.
We’re not giving it sugar this year. Lesson learned.
(Erik and tree.)
Nevers Debut.
Last August, I bought a condo in my hometown of Medford, MA. I’m the oldest of the four Nevers children, and somehow found it only natural to invite my two younger brothers and sister to be my roommates. Reactions to our living arrangement are usually of the suprised variety; how four brothers and sisters manage to get along — let alone live together post-parental involvement — seemed a feat to most people.
Believe me, it is most times.
The dynamic is unique and always evolving, but all-in-all I think we’re getting close to mastering this roommate thing. I’ve decided to kick up a blog to chat about the day to day; from shared meals, to looking after our newly-acquired kitty Gunga-galunga (yeah, I didn’t name him), to the many dimensions of our shared living environment. Thought people would be interested in how the four of us keep things copacetic.
So welcome to my blog. Ironically I’m not at the condo now for the first post, but when I left an hour ago, Erik, Travis and Amber were ordering take-out from Tasty Gourmet. I look forward to you meeting everyone through the course of our days and to sharing a bit about the trials and tribulations of making family your roommates. Not only that, but doing so from the city in which we were all raised - hub of the universe, Medford.
Enjoy and stay tuned.
