... I'm introducing her just a tad more. She's the one on the right.
Slightly out of the norm for me, as I generally keep my family, my friends and any charming young men I date tucked carefully close to my heart. Facing me.
But we're moving in together, and so my stories become her stories become our stories become your stories ... kind of ... those of you who read this.
I've got sisters.
I've got a sister Liz who's older, married, has 4 children and lives in a town close to Portland.
I've got a sister Hannah, who's 18 years younger than me and lives not near Portland but in the same state.
(Ok, in all fairness, I have a brother, too - Greg, whom I can't NOT mention, even though this posting is about sisters.)
And then there's Cheryl. Who's been my sister the longest (blended family). Who knows how deeply family dysfunction can run and knows how hard we all fight to keep above it. Who has fought with me and borrowed my roller skates and had the better Barbie house and played hide and go seek with me and loved horses while I was deathly afraid of them and used to watch "labyrinth" in my room (much to my chagrin) almost every day and went to Pebble beach with me and went snorkeling in Oahu with me and sang duets with me in the bathroom and watched Ghostbusters with me when we were kids (and didn't laugh at me when I got scared) and loved the cartoon "gem" and made up dance routines with me.
Cheryl will be going to the same school, undergraduate, finishing her degree in biochemistry (she's a smart one). We will drive each other crazy, fight, make up the next day and drink a lot of Starbucks together. We'll go through periods when we'll only shop at organic markets and then go through periods where taco bell seems like an incredible idea. We'll make a million plans and follow through with two and a half with them.
She'll finally introduce me to Korean food (she's fluent! ~ in the food and the language) and maybe even teach me to run. I'll stick by her side as she starts yoga with me.
We've worked hard at being "family", Cheryl and I. No doubt due to our peripatetic upbringing (I just learned that word 10 minutes ago! :D ). My dad was in the military, and the four of us that were the family at the time lived in Europe until I was 9, and then we went to the Philippines when I was 11 (short stay there due to extreme political instability). I started to get to know my extended family (grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc.,) when I was 18.
So stay tuned. Once you know her, you love her.
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Lisa your so sweet, I will try to put up a tutorial this week, I still have some headbands and flowers..
and its no sewing involved! :) Even better.
btw. how blessed are you to have so much family...
this coming from an only child!! :)
I love Cheryl!
Living with your sister is fun..sometimes...haha. I am kidding. There was an adjustment period for Katelyn and I, but I think that we have it down for the most part now. We fight and then two minutes later can be laughing at something that Greg does. I am looking forward to the stories.
Oh and I didn't know you had a brother...named Greg!