First Birthday With Family Perhaps?

My sister texted me yesterday, asking if I could come to Cheongju the weekend of my birthday. She said that we could celebrate my bday with family and then go out and drink together in the downtown area. I was a little hesitant at first to agree to this, as this would be the first time in my soon to be 28 years to celebrate my birthday with them.

I guess it sounds silly, I'm sure all that we'll do is eat cake and maybe I'll get some bday cash. But it will definitely be emotional for me, something that I'm not 100% sure that I want to experience. Having found my biological family has caused me to think a lot about my situation from all sorts of angles. Thankfulness for having grown up in the States. Relief that they're good, smart, and healthy people. Wonderment about how I would've been had I grown up here. Hesitation due to a fear of commitment. And the list goes on, and on, and on...

Also, whenever I visit my family, I never know what's going to happen, so who knows what this birthday party could actually turn out to be! Bees. Penises. Mountain hiking and drinking. One-armed grandmas. Man, what strange and quirky DNA I've inherited!!

Well I did agree in the end to visit, so I guess I'll report back on this in 19 days...