I could honestly say that when my sister and I get together nothing but trouble is going to happen. It's not that we have too many childhood stories of mischief to share, truth be told we spent the majority of our lives living in different homes, raised by very different parents, and experienced very different childhoods where the stories only rarely overlapped one another. At the same time we are sisters after all, and sisters well, sisters are just born with a bond.

As different as our lives have been we have always been able to find common ground. Even after some pretty big fights that lasted perhaps a little too long, we have always been able to make peace and come out of it laughing. I sometimes think that the ability to find laughter in pain, is what has gotten us this far. So when my Birds were born it was only natural that they too loved her just as much (if not more) than I do. The bond that I seem to have with my sister only seems stronger between them. Which is weird when you think about how little time they have been able to share together. In fact we haven't lived in the same town since my children we're born...I think maybe even longer.

Yet if you were to spend any given moment with us you would think that my sister Hedder lives right next door. It's not easy knowing that we're going to be so far apart again in just a few more months. It's even harder knowing that she is at a point in her life where huge growth and change is going to start happening and there is a very good chance I won't be around for most of it. Sure I'll make a point to be there when I can and I know she will too, but that's just not the same now is it?

However there is always some relief in knowing that when I do see her it will be as if we had never been apart and that just as when we were little kids growing up two very different ways we'll still always have a good laugh just around the corner.