Happy Birthday!!!
Happy Birthday to Haley (today) and Meggie (tomorrow)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Meggie was always such a good big sister. She let me go everywhere with her, (maybe because she was too shy to go by herself!) and all of my happy childhood memories involve her. Making mud pies in the dirt driveway, building Barbie homes out of books that took so long to build we never played with them then. Choreographing dances to David Bowie and Sting songs, playing restaurant where the only 2 menu items were bread or sugar milk. (I always ordered sugar milk.)
I will always remember Megan telling me in a happy voice, "Once you get cleaning it is really fun!" I was rather skeptical. I remember her piling up all of Mommy's papers into neat stacks, which never made Mommy as happy as it should have.. hehe...As teenagers, we would keep Seth up too late on Mommy and Doc's date night singing to him and playing games. Then we would rush to put him in bed when we heard the car in the garage! We shared clothes, friends and interests, but most of all laughs. We were what made each of us like to be at home a lot. She was kind to me and I always felt worried when I was little that one day she would realize she was way too good for me and not want to be friends anymore. Lucky for me she never has realized that!
Haley was the little sister that we loved to spoil. I remember feeling threatened when she was on her way, that she would be tiny and cute and charming everyone would love her. Meggie and I tried to remember funny jokes to tell her when she was born and Megan asked how long her eyes would be closed after she was born. (We had been around baby kitties too much!) When she was born it was the first time I experienced what it was to love someone you had just met. She was so little and perfect, and Megan and I had instantly found the person to pour out all our maternal/ doll instincts into. We saved babysitting money to buy her clothes and necklaces, fantasized about how we would dress her if we had lots of money and all the things we would do with her. She was very accomodating and dutifully charming, but what made it the most fun was how grateful she was for everything we did for her. She would be sooo happy and excited about the LipSmacker necklace that we got her that it was more fun for us than for her. She cried a lot and then talked a lot. She was bouncy and imaginative and flexible! We bounced her on our feet, threw her in the air and practiced swing dance moves with her. We watched her grow and marveled that she never went through an awkward stage. I was jealous and proud of her accomplishments and admirers.
She was everything we had been afraid she would be- and no one loved her for it more than Megan and I did. Because she was also kind and tender-hearted, generous to others and thoughtful of their feelings. She was humble and sweet and a genuinely happy person.
Brothers are wonderful, but they kind of move in a different sphere than us. Sisters are like wonderful best friends that are stuck with you no matter what!
Now that we are grown, we call each other when we are having a bad day. Or a good day. Or to see how the other one's day is going. (Thank goodness for free long distance!) We each are different and unique, but shockingly similiar.
I am sooo grateful for my two wonderful sisters! You two are the best friends I have in life (and Danny, too!) and it makes me happy to think of all the fun things we have to look forward to doing together. Life would be so different without you. Thank you for being so kind to me and for being who you each are. I love you. -
Your Little/ Big Sister Mel, Melaleuca fireworks, Meldoo, Mewinders, etc.
I am sooo grateful for my two wonderful sisters! You two are the best friends I have in life (and Danny, too!) and it makes me happy to think of all the fun things we have to look forward to doing together. Life would be so different without you. Thank you for being so kind to me and for being who you each are. I love you. -
7 comments:
Oh, stop! That was soooo nice of you to write this wittle sisterly wuv note for us!
Haley really WAS the perfect little sister for us! And we had so much fun growing up together! I remember the mud pies and Barbie "houses" and playing in the creek, etc. Oh, and your milk sugar! Hmmm..... I wonder what we would think of drinking that now., I bet it tastes gross, like fake chocolate milk!
Thank You soooo much for being such a great sister! And just so you know, it never even occurred to me growing up to think what you thought I would someday think. (Did that make sense?) I would have died if we hadn't had each other and if I would have had to go to birthday parties and stuff by myself! And actually, I'd die now if we didn't get to talk on the phone and blog together and stuffs! So, don't die because then I might die too. :)
I just realized how rude that seems to have said, "Oh, stop!" What I meant was, don't say such nice things about me because I might just get a widdle bit sappy over here!
Wahhh! I miss my sisters!!! Thank you for your wonderful post, I'm so glad I was born to you and Megan (that sounds like you're my parents, haha, but you really kind of were!). That's funny you were afraid Megan would someday realize that she didn't like you anymore, because I always thought that too, but about me! I thought, "Once they realize that I'm so young and annoying, they won't take me on their group dates or to other countries or ask me to come visit them anymore!" It was like I didn't realize that you both already knew how young I was and yet you still somehow let me tag along. And now look at us? You couldn't live without me. :) And I couldn't live without you! Maybe that's the way marriage should be too, you both think they're better than they are, so eventually you both try to be that better person that they believe you are. Did that make any sense?
That first picture makes me miss you guys sooo much! I remember that day, I was so happy going with you and Noodle and Megan (and I think Phillip?) to Target. It's one of those wonderful memories that just sticks with me and makes me smile and feel all warm inside. I agree with Megan, I would die if either of you died so no one die okay?! I can't wait to see what more fun things we get to do together! I secretly hope we all become widdowed at the same time (when we're 80, not soon!) and then we have 10 years to travel the world together and all die together on a plane crash or something fast. :)
Thank you for spending your time on your slooow computer to write such wonderful things. I'm so forever grateful to be yours and Megan's sister.
Bahaha..... Why did everyone think I would suddenly realize I didn't like them?!?!
P.S.
Mel, Did you know I wrote Haley a birthday blog post too? It's so funny, just like what we always do.... but your blog post about Haley and my blog post about Haley are strangely similar!
I noticed that too, we are all almost like the same person sometimes because we all think so similarly! Both of your blog posts talk about you saving your money to buy me outfits and spoiling me. I like reading about that so I'm glad it was written twice. :)
These birthday posts just make me smile to read about what you remember about each other and, most especially, to read about the support you have been and are about each other. That has always been such a comfort to me!
Yes, Haley, Phillip was on that trip to Target (thank you, Phillip, for paying for Meggie and Saber;s trip to Idaho last October!). I was delighted to be going shopping together, too. It was awesome for us to be going shopping with Phillip as an escort.
Think of spending the eternities with our families and dear friends! Sharing this unending moment with you all is such a blessing.
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