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Aug 29 2008

Are you an aunt or an uncle?

Category: Family Fun

Having family spread out around the globe, we've created an extended family of friends. We have an Uncle Pete, Uncle Jimmy, Uncle Kurt, and Aunt Karen. We even have an Uncle Sheila. 

Uncle Sheila is married to Uncle Jimmy. Before you start thinking "alternative family," Sheila is a woman and Jimmy is a man. It is Nathan's doing that Sheila goes by that moniker.

When Nathan was two, Paul took him camping with Jimmy, Sheila and their two girls. Used to calling Jimmy "uncle" -- and not realizing there was a feminine version of the title -- he called Sheila "Uncle Sheila" and the name stuck.

Even today, I'm not allowed to call her aunt. She's always Uncle Sheila to us.