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Birthday and relations
Jan. 8th, 2009 09:24 amHAPPY BIRTHDAY E! Please have a fabulous day...you deserve it!
My "little sister" is having a "milestone birthday" today. I am trying not to focus on it, but DAMN! How can she be so grown up? She does seem much more grown up than she did at her last "big birthday," what with the advent of a husband, house, car, baby and theater company in the last ten years...
I can remember when she was born. It was the middle of the night, very early Wednesday morning. She was supposed to have arrived the Friday before, so we had been waiting tensely since then. My dad was ill, having had major abdominal surgery very recently, and I was home sick with the "Hong Kong Flu." Mom drove herself to the hospital in Albany (12 miles away) with one of the church ladies riding along. I snoozed on and off. I don't remember the phone ringing, but I have a very clear memory of my dad shouting, "IT"S A GIRL! 8 pounds 6 ounces!" And being disappointed, because after two girls, everyone had talked about it being a boy this time. But I quickly got over that.
She was "my baby sister"...but she has grown up into a very special sister, friend and partner in a theater company! She has brought me a brother-in-law, the only official "brother" anything I have in my day-to-day life. And they've given me the best niece in the entire world. I think she has grown up rather well.
My "little sister" is having a "milestone birthday" today. I am trying not to focus on it, but DAMN! How can she be so grown up? She does seem much more grown up than she did at her last "big birthday," what with the advent of a husband, house, car, baby and theater company in the last ten years...
I can remember when she was born. It was the middle of the night, very early Wednesday morning. She was supposed to have arrived the Friday before, so we had been waiting tensely since then. My dad was ill, having had major abdominal surgery very recently, and I was home sick with the "Hong Kong Flu." Mom drove herself to the hospital in Albany (12 miles away) with one of the church ladies riding along. I snoozed on and off. I don't remember the phone ringing, but I have a very clear memory of my dad shouting, "IT"S A GIRL! 8 pounds 6 ounces!" And being disappointed, because after two girls, everyone had talked about it being a boy this time. But I quickly got over that.
She was "my baby sister"...but she has grown up into a very special sister, friend and partner in a theater company! She has brought me a brother-in-law, the only official "brother" anything I have in my day-to-day life. And they've given me the best niece in the entire world. I think she has grown up rather well.
