They are young and have lives of their own now. The chef may have been considered a friend by Obama and Michelle, but doesn’t have to be the same for the kids.
Good point. I’m not friends with every person my parents knew.
Kids seem like a bum deal. You learn that you can love someone so unconditionally and looking inward you see that this paternal love is very similar to the love of the Holy Spirit, and why the Church Fathers and apostles kept harping of the paternal bond between Creator and created, now made manifest in your own little family, and how can you love anything more than your children? Then, they grow up, and up, and up, faster than you can even muse on these thoughts, and what are you supposed to do afterwards!
I dread time moving forward on me.
Really off topic reply, but it came over me. Oh no, I’m a sappy sap.
They grew up with him as their WH & family chef.
Yeah, really. Kids came into town for a funeral. Not exactly jawdropping stuff.