I Love My Little Sister!!!

My little sister is freaking awesome!!! She has a very real personality, doesn't take crap, enjoys the little things, and exudes a beautiful faith life. Why the sudden lauding of my sister on my blog...? This...

July 23, 2010 8:51pm

Hey. Mom was freaking out about getting the moving truck and not "knowing everything" that is going on next week so I told her that you had gotten the job in west laf. She wasn't too happy about it saying that "oh he owes me money and was supposed to come home so he could work it off. I had things for him to do around the house too." In other words she is pissed. She doesn't consider it a job. I was like well at least Andy would be working 40 hrs a week. It's a job and he'd be working more than you. She was like but I could make more that him in a day than what he does in a week. I was like well duh you've been working longer you should be able to do that. She's more or less pissed that you are staying in laf and saying "he never intended on coming back to this area."

Dad's still thinks all you'll be doing is "mowing the lawn." I tried to explain to him that you were doing other things and that a person couldn't mow the lawn every day of the week. They're basically just mad that you won't be subbing. Hopefully you were able to do some sort of deal with them about being able to at least once a week.

Mom's basically like "I'm cutting him off for good then." and basically told us to stop talking about you that as far as she was concerned you're not doing what you should with your life. Honestly it's all bull shit what they say. They need to understand that you have been trying to get jobs and that your type of job just isn't hiring right now. Subbing isn't a guaranteed position every day of the week and you'd basically be making the same amount of money you are at your guaranteed job. You're doing what you can do right now and mostly mom needs to understand that. She thinks that you don't want to sever your ties with School and that's why you're not moving. Which again is bull shit. Sure you may still want to be in the area but right now that is where you have a job.

She also thinks she deserves to know what Kim and you broke up. Which again is none of her business. If you wanted to tell us you would. Honestly whatever happened was between you two and it's not any of our business as to why that happened.

So I didn't mean to make this all ranting. Congratulations on getting the job and hope that you do find something better in the future, but for right now this is what you have been given and at least it's an opportunity that some people don't have. I'll be happy to see you when I get down to Purdue and hope that maybe you'll be able to come to the Band concert thing at the end of the week like you came to last year. It's on sat I believe or lateish Fri night. I'll let you know for sure later.

And that my friends is why everybody wishes their sister was as awesome as mine! My little sister stands up for me...and I'm the big brother. I ran across this tonight, It was written almost three years ago. I think I have swayed my dad...but my mom is another story. I have never been able to please her in anything I have ever done. It hurts...I want to live my life the way I feel I am called to live it, but she sucks the fun out of it and complains the entire way through. I am thankful for my little sister. We don't always see eye to eye on everything, we fight...siblings do that. But at the end of the day, I know that either of us would bend over backwards to help the other. Growing up when people heard twins in our family they often assumed sis and I were the twins. In many ways that makes sense now. Our personalities are similar and we share a lot of the same interests.

Anyway, the main point of this is that I came across this post tonight and it made me realize how privileged I am to have my little sister...and although she may have been a pain growing up (as was her job as a little sister) I will always treasure the experiences we have had over the years, and will continue to have!!!

Sometimes you want to go

Where everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came. You wanna be where you can see, our troubles are all the same You wanna be where everybody knows Your name.

Vacation often means heading off to somewhere warm and exotic. Usually it doesn't land you in the middle of a forest, in pouring rain, surrounding by a busy schedule that leaves you exhausted at the end of the day.

Well it does for me, and I wouldn't have traded a second of it. Yeah there were times during the week that it would have been nice to be somewhere cushy and relaxing, but it wouldn't have taken my mind off of my real life job. Camp allowed me to remove myself from the outside world and focus on the moment.

The best part is that it felt as if I had never left. Within a half hour of pulling into camp I felt like I had been there last week and was staying the rest of the summer. Everyone knew who I was and started joking with me as they did with everyone else on staff. One of the things that hit me hard though was Tuesday afternoon. I saw one of my mom's friends at camp and he pulled me aside to tell me that I was the reason that his son was on staff this year. This was the same scout who was sleeping in the bunk above me all week.

I ended up working split between three areas: Waterfront, Trading Post, and pulling trap up at the Rifle Range...