Slice of Life Sunday~~~Sisters

The word sister….To me that is one word in a handful of words that is so sweet sounding to my ears.  I do have one.  A little sister who just celebrated her 27th birthday this past Saturday.

At one time, I would tell you that my sister and were totally different from each other.  And we are different in a lot of areas for example.  She has my aunts beautiful feet with wonderful high arches.  I have my grandmothers awful feet.  She has COLE black eyes.  I have cat green eyes.  She has Cole black hair. Me I have dirty brown with grey hair.   She is darker complected (must be our Indian heritage creeping in) and I very porcelain in complexion.  However, we both share the same mother and father.

My sister is 8 years younger than me.  When she was a newborn ( I really do mean a newborn 1-2 weeks old) I used to push her around in my baby doll buggy.  Then as she started to walk and talk and run around the house…I played school with her.  And she was my BEST student.

Then I hit around 15 years old.  She was 7.  She always found a way to bother me.  Get into my make up or interupt a kiss from a boyfriend.  It never Failed.  She was VERY good at it.  She would always remind me that she was just doing her job being a little sister….trying to keep me out of trouble.  Even though it annoyied me to absolutely NO end at the time.  Looking back, I am so glad she did those obnoxious things.

My sister Shawna and I are very close.  And we live over 600 hundred miles away from each other.  She is always on my mind.  We rarely get to see each other.  The last time I actually saw her was when Zachary was a baby and now he is 7.  However we do talk to each other on the phone.

I have missed so much in her life and I deeply regret it.  I missed her wedding shower, her wedding, her baby shower and my neice coming into the world.  But through it all I have been there for her.  I helped her design her wedding invitations.  Even though I lived in Germany at the time.  I bought stuff for her wedding and baby shower and made sure my mom took them.

Shawna is VERY intelligent.  She is now getting her Master’s in Speech Pathology.  She is beautiful.  Both inside and out.  She can sing like there is NO tomorrow.  She has even performed several times on the Oklahoma Opry.  She is a upbeat positive person that people gather around.  Shes funny even though I don’t think she thinks so. She is a Awesome Daughter, sister, wife, mother and Aunt. She is extremely honest and trustworthy.

I feel so blessed that God gave her to me as my sister.  I wish everyone could have the  experience of having a wonderful Sister bond as I do with my baby sister.

Below is a picture of my sister with husband Jason. 

It is not the best picture of her (ooooh she is going to hurt me for saying that) but at least you can see just how beautiful she is.

Thanks so much for reading about my sister and this was so fitting since she just celebrated her birthday.