This is wonderful, thank you for sharing this Diana!
I do have fond memories of my siblings. Here's a favorite for each. Since i'm checking the "Share as a note" button this will count as Deep Scoot Lore.
I am the middle son between two sisters. My younger sister likes to say she "pre-haunted" me before she was born. My favorite anecdote from our childhood, which very well describes our relationship, that my older sister had painted a rock to look like a radio for me, and I loved the durn thing. I carried it around and I would pretend to listen to music. My younger sister was jealous so yelled at me to "turn the volume down". It being a painted rock, and me being unable to comply, didn't know what to do so I just started crying.
My older sister and I are I think what some might consider "irish twins", only 18 months apart, so we were very close as yoots. When Comet Hale-Bopp visited in '95, my sister tracked it's progress across the sky using tape on the window of our house, and I remember joining her for the ceremony whenever she did it. My love of space was strong even back then, and it's something I know my sister and I shared.
Fun memories! Thank you for the invitation to reminisce!
I have two younger brothers--one two years younger and one twelve years younger--so growing up, it was always just two of us, and boy, we were best friends. One of the hardest parts about going to college was not getting to see him as often, and when he followed me a couple years later, it was such a joy to be able to grab lunch on campus on a weekly basis.
Now, as our "baby" brother is halfway through his teenage years (what), and I live around the corner from him and my parents, it's been so fun to get to know him and spend that time with him more often. He proudly claims his title as my girls' favorite uncle, and (funny or not, depending on the day) is teaching our 2yo to bribe people to give her what she wants by saying, "I love Mamoo best!" (or, I love Mommy best, etc etc).
My two daughters are 4 and 2. On one occasion I heard them both giggling and whispering under a blanket on the bed. I found it so cute and the feeling you are talking about washed over me. I thought “I love it so much that they are best friends.” As a dad I just had to throw the blanket off and scare them. I saw that they had stolen and eaten an ENTIRE tube of kid tooth paste! It cracks me up to think about how they passed a tube of toothpaste back and forth, taking fat pulls haha. It has also got me worried about the future, we all know toothpaste is the real gateway drug!!!
What a lovely reflection on your family! This was a wonderful read.
1)My children are 2 years old and 6 months, so there isn't a lot of merrymaking between them. But my year old daughter will kiss her little brother on the head from time to time for no apparent reason and it is sweet to see. 2) I have many wonderful memories with my twin brother. We were and are extremely close. I remember us setting up ramps in various places across our yard or street to jump them with our bikes. Or playing baseball for hours on end. We practically lived outside. 3) We keep our house under control by making sure to tidy up every night and we also temper our expectations. Sometimes, the laundry just has to wait another day. But the dishes always get done. I make sure of that. My wife and I tag team dishes but I make sure they are put away. I enjoy coming into a neat kitchen every morning. It's just a nice way to start the day.
I tried very hard to get through reading this to my daughter without sobbing tears. Didn't work very well. One daughter left for the other side of the country to return to school and our oldest leaves, traveling further, tomorrow. Our littles are home and we feel this deeply - they are so very close and we all ache for the homecomings in winter and summer. I come from dismantled, disjointed, fractured half-sibling relationships so to have what we have now, to have fought so very hard and held on by a thread only to be held by the One, can only be described as grace upon grace. What a gift!
🥹🥹🥹 Melissa! I come from the same background so I guess it feels even more deeply to see what being raised in a healthy(ish) family looks like! Thank you so much for sharing ❤️❤️❤️
My siblings and I are fairly close in age, and as adults we are all very close. I would say, though, that the closeness increased as we got older. We always loved each other, but in childhood there was a lot of sibling fighting in addition to sibling revelry. I think that, for us, homeschooling was a big help in developing good relationships because, with no “school friends” as a buffer we had to figure out how to be pleasant to each other to have a reasonably peaceful home.
As to mess...When we got home from Mass yesterday, I literally said, “Every single room in our house is a disaster.” 😂🤦♀️
Yesterday my three kids (10, 9, and 5) were all playing detective together. While I was writing up an article, they all came and handed me boarding passes for the airplane/couch. Five minutes later I accused them of giving me fakes and threw them all "out the window" onto a bean bag chair.
I have wonderful memories of playing and bonding with my two sisters who are just a year and two years younger than me. I also have a brother and sister who are seven and eleven years younger, and my bonding with them has come more during our adulthood over the last ten years. It took a while for us to be in similar-enough life states.
We do Saturday morning chores with the kids. Even then, the drywall hole in my bathroom just got patched last month, and the remnants of a neon-pink sticky toy are still stuck to my kitchen ceiling seven years later.
This is wonderful, thank you for sharing this Diana!
I do have fond memories of my siblings. Here's a favorite for each. Since i'm checking the "Share as a note" button this will count as Deep Scoot Lore.
I am the middle son between two sisters. My younger sister likes to say she "pre-haunted" me before she was born. My favorite anecdote from our childhood, which very well describes our relationship, that my older sister had painted a rock to look like a radio for me, and I loved the durn thing. I carried it around and I would pretend to listen to music. My younger sister was jealous so yelled at me to "turn the volume down". It being a painted rock, and me being unable to comply, didn't know what to do so I just started crying.
My older sister and I are I think what some might consider "irish twins", only 18 months apart, so we were very close as yoots. When Comet Hale-Bopp visited in '95, my sister tracked it's progress across the sky using tape on the window of our house, and I remember joining her for the ceremony whenever she did it. My love of space was strong even back then, and it's something I know my sister and I shared.
Fun memories! Thank you for the invitation to reminisce!
I have two younger brothers--one two years younger and one twelve years younger--so growing up, it was always just two of us, and boy, we were best friends. One of the hardest parts about going to college was not getting to see him as often, and when he followed me a couple years later, it was such a joy to be able to grab lunch on campus on a weekly basis.
Now, as our "baby" brother is halfway through his teenage years (what), and I live around the corner from him and my parents, it's been so fun to get to know him and spend that time with him more often. He proudly claims his title as my girls' favorite uncle, and (funny or not, depending on the day) is teaching our 2yo to bribe people to give her what she wants by saying, "I love Mamoo best!" (or, I love Mommy best, etc etc).
Aww I love this!!!! It is so fun to watch your siblings come into their own. Love it
My two daughters are 4 and 2. On one occasion I heard them both giggling and whispering under a blanket on the bed. I found it so cute and the feeling you are talking about washed over me. I thought “I love it so much that they are best friends.” As a dad I just had to throw the blanket off and scare them. I saw that they had stolen and eaten an ENTIRE tube of kid tooth paste! It cracks me up to think about how they passed a tube of toothpaste back and forth, taking fat pulls haha. It has also got me worried about the future, we all know toothpaste is the real gateway drug!!!
LOL that's the best
My kids love eating toothpaste too! What is up with that???
What a lovely reflection on your family! This was a wonderful read.
1)My children are 2 years old and 6 months, so there isn't a lot of merrymaking between them. But my year old daughter will kiss her little brother on the head from time to time for no apparent reason and it is sweet to see. 2) I have many wonderful memories with my twin brother. We were and are extremely close. I remember us setting up ramps in various places across our yard or street to jump them with our bikes. Or playing baseball for hours on end. We practically lived outside. 3) We keep our house under control by making sure to tidy up every night and we also temper our expectations. Sometimes, the laundry just has to wait another day. But the dishes always get done. I make sure of that. My wife and I tag team dishes but I make sure they are put away. I enjoy coming into a neat kitchen every morning. It's just a nice way to start the day.
This reminds me I need to run the dishwasher. Thanks, Daniel.
Happy to help 😆
I tried very hard to get through reading this to my daughter without sobbing tears. Didn't work very well. One daughter left for the other side of the country to return to school and our oldest leaves, traveling further, tomorrow. Our littles are home and we feel this deeply - they are so very close and we all ache for the homecomings in winter and summer. I come from dismantled, disjointed, fractured half-sibling relationships so to have what we have now, to have fought so very hard and held on by a thread only to be held by the One, can only be described as grace upon grace. What a gift!
🥹🥹🥹 Melissa! I come from the same background so I guess it feels even more deeply to see what being raised in a healthy(ish) family looks like! Thank you so much for sharing ❤️❤️❤️
My siblings and I are fairly close in age, and as adults we are all very close. I would say, though, that the closeness increased as we got older. We always loved each other, but in childhood there was a lot of sibling fighting in addition to sibling revelry. I think that, for us, homeschooling was a big help in developing good relationships because, with no “school friends” as a buffer we had to figure out how to be pleasant to each other to have a reasonably peaceful home.
As to mess...When we got home from Mass yesterday, I literally said, “Every single room in our house is a disaster.” 😂🤦♀️
I've been meaning to get one of those signs that say: "My house was clean last week, sorry you missed it."
Hahaha I felt that DEEP. I live in that tension of: I WANT NICE THINGS! and It's just a thing.
It helps to know I'm not alone in the trenches! We got this!
Yesterday my three kids (10, 9, and 5) were all playing detective together. While I was writing up an article, they all came and handed me boarding passes for the airplane/couch. Five minutes later I accused them of giving me fakes and threw them all "out the window" onto a bean bag chair.
I have wonderful memories of playing and bonding with my two sisters who are just a year and two years younger than me. I also have a brother and sister who are seven and eleven years younger, and my bonding with them has come more during our adulthood over the last ten years. It took a while for us to be in similar-enough life states.
We do Saturday morning chores with the kids. Even then, the drywall hole in my bathroom just got patched last month, and the remnants of a neon-pink sticky toy are still stuck to my kitchen ceiling seven years later.
Lol you throwing your kids on the bean bag is giving me Bandit from Bluey vibes lol parenting can be so fun sometimes!
I love all of this. Thank you so much for sharing!
The drywall hole in the bathroom...did one of your children try to do pull-ups on the towel holder?
Yes! Exactly what happened.
Our 7 yo had the same idea.
I replaced it with one that DOESN'T look like a pull-up bar to avoid the same problem in the future.
Smart