Moving on up........

My baby sister just bought a house!!!!!

Well - she's not really a "baby" anymore - but in my head she's still the chubby 8 year old with a bad haircut. Now she is 24, a beautiful independent woman who is buying her first home! I got SO emotional reading her e-mail that they (her and her boyfriend) had won the bidding process I actually started tearing up at my desk at work! I jumped up and told all the ladies I work with and they all came over and hugged me, making sure that I pass along my congratulations to my sister.

The funny thing is that the house is literally 3 minutes from my front door - only a few streets away in the same town! It wasn't on purpose, it just happened to work out that way - isn't that strange? It will be so great to have her close by - I just love her to pieces.

I don't have brothers but I have always felt that sisters have a special bond. Me and my two sisters are so close that I can't imagine not having them in my day-to-day life. They each seperately have different strengths and weaknesses that I have come to depend on. I believe that as our family grows and they each get married and start their own families (whatever that might mean for each of them) that our bond will grow even stronger. Looking to each other for support and understanding when no one else understands what you are feeling. I am lucky that I have biological sisters and then I have my adopted "soul-sistah" - my very best friend A who I swear I am related to in another life but for now she just happens to have different parents. The three of us have adopted her as part of the pack. And each of my sisters have one or two adopted siblings as well so we're actually a pretty big crowd! We should organize a yearly meeting!

Now if I can just convince my sister's boyfriend that she really should show up at the closing with a "finance" in tow..........