Your blogging assignment today is to blog about your sister…your sisters…your sister-in-law or the special person in your life that you consider a sister.
If you need a little something extra, I’ve made a few fun graphics that you can use however you like on your blog. Click to enlarge and then drag off into your file for uploading to your blog.
Let me know if you complete your assignment, I would love to read it and link over to your blog! But most importantly, if you can, share your blog post with your sister(s).
More than a month before my 40th birthday, I began receiving birthday cards on a daily basis. My big sister, Jenny, actually mailed to me 40 birthday cards, one a day. The last card coming on my birthday along with a gift she had made for me, a book of thoughts, ideas and lessons straight from her heart to mine.
The covers were decopaged with photos of my sisters and I as very young girls, and the photo on the back of Jenny comforting me as a baby. Inside the book, she began it with a beautiful introduction, and then the next pages with a list of 40 things she learned about being 40: “Growing up, out & older Here are a few of my favorites:
#1 It’s okay to tell your pajamas and slippers you love them.
#2 It’s not allergies that make my nose itch -it’s my new mustache.
#6 Grey hair is beautiful and it goes with any color.
#10 I’m too old for peer pressure.
#15 I still think guys with rock band hair are cool.
#18 I refuse to be uncomfortable if there is another option.
#23 My thoughts are worth writing down.
#24 My butt is big no matter what I wear.
#40 I need my sisters more than ever.
She went on to list her favorite words and sounds, everything from forgiveness, giggle and hopscotch to chippy, sassafrass and “Hi Jen, it’s Cath.”
She wrote a pages of things she learned from me and pages of her favorite Bible scriptures. And on the last page she wrote the most beautiful letter of love to me.
This is probably the most special gift anyone has ever made for me. Thanks sis. 143.
Sisters. There are no words that can adequately define that very special bond. In 1965, I was born to two sisters. Jenny, two and Shelly, three. Born on Dec. 24, I was their Christmas present, a living, breathing, crying doll. And although we grew up so close in age I don’t think we truly appreciated the gift of sisterhood until we began to reach adulthood.
Very sadly, my sister Shelly, (being squeezed here in my arms), passed away suddenly at age 40. Jenny and I miss her more than words can say. And although my sister Jenny and I have always been close, the loss of our sweet Shelly has brought us together in a way we could have never known. Jenny, (Jennifer), and I are separated by 2000 miles of land but we are completely bound together in heart and spirit. We talk and e-mail weekly, sometimes daily, and share most of the same creative genes and passions. Not to mention, we really crack each other up.
Shelly’s 46th birthday is one week from today, so I will be celebrating her life and her love by sharing the beauty of sisterhood on my blog this week.
When she passed, Jeff and I adopted her daughter, Sarah, at age 5. Sarah, now 11, and I have our own little tradition to celebrate her mom-in-heaven’s birthday by baking the chocolatiest cake we can possibly make -because if you knew Shelly, you knew chocolate.
If you have a sister, please call her this week, hug her if you can, and take a moment to appreciate and share the blessing you have been gifted. If you would like to share a special sister story, please do in the comments or feel free to email me, I would love to read it.
Your blogging assignment today is to blog about your sister…your sisters…your sister-in-law or the special person in your life that you consider a sister.
