My Sissy

My sister is here for the Birthday weekend. I love having her here it makes things feel “right”. I’ve realized lately, well it’s been pointed out by someone I care about, that I’m a lot closer to my family than a lot of people are. I never thought that I’d be so family oriented, I’m always the one at family functions hiding away reading or doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing. I never thought that being close to my Mom and Sister could be seen as strange. The connection I have with them, I’ve realized, is not typical and I’m thankful for that. My mom was almost 20 when I was born, and while I knew it was pretty young at the time it didn’t hit me till I was well above twenty and being around kids the age I would have been when my mom was my age… So now at 34 (almost) I look at 14/15 year olds with terror thinking I was 14 almost 15 when my mom turned 34… 20 is too young to have kids! I know that because of that my mom and I have had a different relationship, more like sisters at times. We were a team for a long time, just her and I. We are still like that too, I’m happy about that though, I like joking about things with my mom that other people wouldn’t tell their parents. My sister is 3.5 years younger than I am and I was a pretty grown up kid, I have always felt like a mom to her or an aunt at the least. Her first steps were from me to her dad and I remember changing her diapers (mostly, I couldn’t get the pins in right). These days we have a very close relationship. She’s not only my baby sister she’s my “sissy” (yeah we call one another that, it’s a funny story) and she’s my best friend. We are so very different and I like that. Neither of us would be friends with the other not because we wouldn’t like one another but because we don’t have as much in common. I think she’s taught me the most about tolerance because of that. So having her here for three days for my birthday makes me feel happy. I get to show her my world in a different way than normal and she gets to meet my friends. This time I’m forcing her to actually talk to people too!