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Sabrina Heise
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True confessions: * Not as politically aware as I should be. * I bite my nails. * I didn't love the Sex and the City movie. * I am actually, really addicted to sugar and should probably be in a 12-step program. * By addicted, I mean, I lash out at people and get grumpy when I haven't had my sug...
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My, How Life Changes

Tuesday, July, 8, 2008

When I was 10 years old, my parents had my little sister. While I was excited about having a sibling, I was completely shaken with the idea of sharing everyone’s time and attention with this mewling, squealing little thing after having everyone’s eyes on me for the first decade of my life.

However, I quickly got over that as she became a great item to bring in for my 4th grade Show and Tell. No one else had a baby...most people brought spiders in jars or sticker books.

As I got older, I laughed as she mimicked me...putting on my make-up when she was 6 and I was 16, and talking on my parents’ cell phone to anyone who would listen from age 7 on.

I mostly acted like another mother to her...the age difference didn’t exactly make us close. I was another person to remind her to pick up her clothes and not eat ice cream right before dinner.

 However, since she’s become a teenager, we’ve started building something we’ve never worked on before: friendship. It’s a new thing, building a relationship with someone who I always saw as a cute little toddler. Now she’s becoming a woman faster than light.

Over the Fourth of July weekend, I got a chance to spend some quality time with Kati (not nearly enough) and I can’t wait for her to visit me in just a few weeks. I spend less time scolding her and more time telling my parents to give her a break. She talks to me about fashion and boys and all the things I never thought we’d discuss when I’d rock her to sleep in my arms.  

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faith.dwight
faith.dwight
Sweet!
Posted Tue, 07/08/2008 - 08:29
My little sister is six years younger than me and we've had a similar story. I pretty much helped raise her when she was little, and we became the closest of friends during her teenage years. Let me tell you, though: now that she's 20, I occasionally feel as if she's outgrowing me. It hurts, but, like a parent, I've got to let her go, trusting I've been the best big sister I can be...
alison skirtboston
alison skirtboston
blood is thick
Posted Tue, 07/08/2008 - 13:05
so, did you go hiking? the sister bond is amazingly strong -- I have a sister 1.5 years younger and another 8 years older. At times we've felt very different (when the oldest had growing kids and the youngest was still living the newlywed life, etc), and we've drifted from close to distant to close over the years but they're still the first 2 I call when there's something really BIG going on... and I try to tell my girls that they're lucky to have sisters... of course it's going to take a few years for that to sink in...
sabrina
sabrina
We hiked, we played frisbee,
Posted Tue, 07/08/2008 - 21:04
We hiked, we played frisbee, she fished (I opted to stay home and read that morning) and it was a great time. The roller coaster relationship cycle that siblings go through is so interesting. It's a whole new experience for me. I'm taking notes.