You Are Special Today...and Always!

At 5:30ish this morning as I was feeding Emi I was thinking of a very special person. I was remembering some of the fun things that we did together. Today is some one's birthday. This person is beautiful, brave, kind, loving, a great friend, an advice giver, an awesome mother, a wonderful wife, a daughter, but most of all she is MY SISTER!! As I was rocking back and forth this morning I was reminiscing on days of old. My sister has a sixth sense you know. I'm sure if you knew her well enough you could guess what it is but I'll just tell you-she is incredibly artistic/creative! Ever since we were little she has done some pretty amazing things. When we were very young she, on more than one birthday, made me poems and read them aloud. These poems were really rather good, but she would cry as she read them and I always got embarrassed. Looking back I wished that I had not been so rude about them. Once when we were teenagers we pushed all the snow from the rest of the driveway to the side of it and made a sledding slide! I have always looked up to M'liss. She has always been so talented and so good. I remember when I was having a bad day up at USU and she took me for a drive and listened to me for a long, long time. She helped me make some really important decisions that day and she may not even realize it. I thought I was brave going to Ecuador for 3 months, not knowing the language, not really knowing anyone. M'liss came to visit me in Ecuador ALL BY HERSELF! That is what I call brave. Another thing that she did was give birth to sweet little Kate the Great ALL NATURAL!! She is such an awesome mother. M'liss is the co-creator of "Secret Sister Time". Often as we were laying in bed we would talk for hours and tell all our little secrets. In truth she probably really did create it but I was there so I guess I should get at least partial credit, right? :) Big things have happened to M'liss at significant points in my life. Like the summer before my first year in college she got married. Not that I don't like Tim but I was kind of excited to have my sissy all to myself for at least a semester. Then the summer after I got married M'liss and Tim moved to VA. I don't know about you but I just NEED my sister sometimes, but when she is clear across the country it makes it kind of hard to get to each other. :( I can remember the day I found out that she was pregnant. I was super excited that she was finally able to get pregnant. She thought I would be mad because she didn't tell me sooner, but how could I be mad?! I also remember the day when she felt SO far away-it was the day that Kate the Great was born. I remember I called while I was at work. She told me that she did it, she had had her baby all natural. Then I heard Kate cry in the background and I lost it. It was a time when I NEEDED to be with my sister and there I was cleaning peoples' stinky feet instead! The most recent time I couldn't get to my sissy was a few weekends ago when she had a miscarriage. My heart ached for her and the empty feelings she was having. I failed in the most important role you have as a sister, I wasn't there for her. I know I physically couldn't be there but I didn't even call her, I wasn't there emotionally for her. I regret that the most. M'liss you are one of the very best things that has happened to me! I love you so much and wish that I was there to take you to lunch or take you shopping or just give you a hug. I hope that you will have such a wonderful Birthday! Today may be your special day, but to me YOU ARE SPECIAL EVERYDAY!! I LOVE YOU!:)