It's A's 18th Birthday!
I know the name of this post could be seen as deceiving because my younger sister is definitely not a baby anymore, but she will always be my baby sister! But anyway, I just wanted to dedicate this post to A on her special day. As most of you know, A is my only biological sister and so our relationship is much different than the ones I have with my step-siblings. I'm pretty certain that I was born to be a big sister, because when God graced us with A, we were in a run for our money. A has severe allergies to many many things, but when she was younger, the list was even greater. I was always having to help make sure that A was staying away from the things she's allergic to and make sure that no one was giving her anything that could harm her, before she was really able to check ingredients in foods and things like that. I grew up as one of her greatest protectors because I was always so worried for my little sister. As we grew up, we were always pretty close, partly because we went through a lot of things within our family that we could only go to each other to talk about, but also partly because we just have a really strong bond. We butted heads quite a bit in A's last year of junior high and first year of high school, but what brought us closer than ever was when I left for college. The summer before I left, we both kind of realized that we had been neglecting each other's company and we realized just how much we were truly going to miss each other. I remember a couple of nights before I left for school, A and I were talking about me leaving and things and we just kind of looked at each other and grabbed hands and we both just started sobbing. It was a really special moment that I will cherish forever because I realized just how much my sister means to me and how weird it would be not to see her every day. Now, we pretty much do everything together. We have been to three concerts together in the last year and are going to another one in a couple of months, we go run errands together when I'm home, and sometimes we just lay around each other's rooms not talking about much but just appreciating the company. A and I have such different personalities, but we have so much that we are able to click together with that in the last several years she has truly become one of the few people that I trust to talk about everything to and one of the people who I can have insane amounts of fun with, or cry to, or pretty much anything honestly and she loves me unconditionally. I never thought it would happen, but A has decided to go to school here at Ouachita and so we will get to attend the same college for a year! I am so excited to see her here for her first year and hopefully she will fall in love with OBU like I have.
A, I know I just called you to wish you happy birthday and I tweeted you earlier, but I just wanted to do something even more special so here's a big big big HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I love you so much and I am SO proud to be your big sister! Next time I come home we're going to win the lottery together and it's gonna be awesome! ~Em
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