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Posted: 03.02.2002 All grown up and savin' China - *sniff*
My mom wrote on Friday to let me know my little sister has finally achieved one of the main goals in her life. She is going to be moving into her first apartment just a few weeks shy of her 21st birthday -- all by herself. I can't tell you how happy this makes me, or how much I'm bursting with pride right now. She hasn't had an easy life, and the brief adulthood she's had would have made most people throw their hands up and be done with it long ago. Exactly 2 years ago, almost to the day, I was boarding a plane to try and make it back to Oklahoma while they were covered in 2" of ice and the airports were closed. I didn't know when I stepped off that plane if my sister would be alive, or brain damaged. She was in intensive care for a few days, followed by a long hospitalization. But somehow she managed to put her life back together again -- get back on her feet -- cut some major losses -- move across the country -- and start all over.
She lived and worked in Delaware for several months while attending community college in '00 and '01. She decided she was better off near home and moved back to Oklahoma last summer. She's been staying with my mom since then while paying off massive debts, buying her very first car, and saving for her first place. She's grown into one hell of a young woman. She has ten times the brains and a hundred times the looks that I'll ever have. She's funny. She's well-read. And we finally like each other. A lot.
I just want to let you know how how proud you make the two of us, Jennifer. We don't talk as often as I'd like with both of our crazy hours -- and it's been much too long since we sat up half the night giggling and watching old movies. But I can't wait to walk into your very first home and give you a high-five. It will be sooner rather than later, somehow...some way... You've earned this the hard way, and I just wish you all the happiness and fun in Norman that we had at your age! Now get thee to O'Connell's and earn that free birthday t-shirt.
Love, your big sister
 That was beautiful; it's chicken soup for the blogging soul. ¤ ¤ credit: Jason | 03.02.02 at 04:30 AM | link- -this ¤ ¤ Thanks for sharing a lovely big sister's insight. That's something I'll never have as the baby of the family. ¤ ¤ credit: meryl | 03.02.02 at 09:43 AM | link--this ¤ ¤Awwww... *sniff* Makes me almost wish I wasn't an only child. Almost. It is super sweet of you to share such a heartfelt letter publically. ¤ ¤ credit: Christine | 03.02.02 at 11:42 AM | link--this ¤ ¤I'm amazed at the differences in your sites. Are your personalities so opposite, as well? ¤ ¤ credit: wKen | 03.02.02 at 11:55 AM | link--this ¤ ¤What a lovely post :) That makes me want to know your sister just so I could remind her what a neato big sis she has :) ¤ ¤ credit: kristine | 03.02.02 at 12:07 PM | link--this ¤ ¤isn't it wonderful that sisters can go from major/minor annoyances to friends! i guess it's one of the benefits of growing up! :) --a big sister to two younger ones ¤ ¤ credit: susannah | 03.02.02 at 12:34 PM | link--this ¤ ¤wKen, we were complete polar opposites growing up in just about everything but music. I was "prep" in high school (although I hung with the skater crowd, too) and she was goth. Very goth. I did all the extracurricular activities in school and she hung out in coffee shops and smoked expensive cigarettes. I rushed off to college, and she took time to find herself first (which in hindsight I wish I had, too). She fought pretty hard during her life to be everything I wasn't, since I left a pretty tall shadow. But that said, as we grow older we grow much more alike. It was hard on me when she was born. I had been an only child for almost 9 years. I was spoiled rotten. Then suddenly I got a new step-dad, she showed up a few years later, and we moved from the town with my/our grandparents to the one with "her" grandparents (mine through adoption). We hated each other until I left for college. There was just too much age difference. But she spent several weeks with me when I was at OU -- I'd take her to class with me and everything. We got really close then. We try to bring her out here for at least a week a year ('99 we flew her to New Orleans with us), although with her moving so much last year it didn't happen. I'm definitely going to find away around that soon though! ¤ ¤ credit: robyn | 03.02.02 at 01:37 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Oh Robyn that is so great! I am so happy for your sister. =) ¤ ¤ credit: Lynn | 03.02.02 at 03:33 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Robyn -this ¤ ¤wow - that post is so moving. While my lil sis didn't go through as many traumatic things, I did go through the cat-and-dog phase where we could never see eye-to-eye. Even at five years apart. Despite time and distance (she lives in Vancouver) we too have become close. Hm. There's no comparing the two of you in beauty - you both look awesome in different ways. ¤ ¤ credit: ladybug | 03.02.02 at 05:56 PM | link--this ¤ ¤I don't have any sister, just two older brothers of which I rarely see. One because he's a giant pain in the arse and the other cause he leads an incredibly busy life and out paths rarely cross. I often wondered what it would be like to have a sister. Didn't do much good with the future sister in law either.... Will just have to bask in the glow of your relationship. I did get a pretty great mum though, so that's a blessing, oh, and a kick-ass bloke! ¤ ¤ credit: Joanne | 03.02.02 at 06:54 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Awww- very heartwarming. Makes me miss my sister too :D Except she's only 15. But still- there is def a bond between sisters that is hard to explain. Your sister is v. cool. Was checking out her site. She's beautiferous and she likes GREAT music too ;) Yay- The Smiths! (and the Cure and depeche) woo. Thanks for sharing R ;) ¤ ¤ credit: Angela | 03.02.02 at 08:03 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Wha a lovely post, Robyn. I wish Jennifer all the luck in the world! ¤ ¤ credit: Christine M. | 03.02.02 at 08:26 PM | link--this ¤ ¤That's awesome, Robyn! And congrats, Jennifer! Makes me wish I weren't an only child.... :) ¤ ¤ credit: Mer | 03.02.02 at 09:22 PM | link--this ¤ ¤I guess as "mom" I can speak here. They WERE complete opposites as kids, thought they would never even LIKE each other. I am so lucky to have them BOTH as my daughters. I'm also very proud of them both, they are great each in their own special way. As much as Robyn loves and adores Jennifer, the feeling is reciprocated by Jenn. She looks up to Rob as her role model, and always has---even thought at one time she would have rather died than admit it! :P Jenn thinks Todd is pretty special too, they have their own language and everything, right Robyn? Just wish you and Jennifer would have gotten closer while you shared the same Zip Code!! ¤ ¤ credit: Mama | 03.05.02 at 01:22 PM | link--this ¤ ¤
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