Thursday, June 27, 2013

Plural Sister

Jenny. What a simulataneous breath of fresh air and then tornado that will rip your little cottage on the plains apart. It is her funny, sometimes overwhelming self that causes so many to just fall in love with her. I know that I am the luckiest to have that wild child as my sister. And I know that if Harry Styles ever got down on one knee for her he would be the most fortunate young man, undoubtedly. So here are ten things I know about Jenny that you may not.


1. She has no qualms with being without pants when others are over.
2. No conversation is safe from her popping into it with something funny, perhaps mean, to say but always funny in the end.
3. She loves jokes, we bought male boxers with our cousins just the other day and the way that girl was dropping jokes left and right and laughing so hard was something to behold.
4. She wants to, with all her little obsessive heart, marry Harry Styles (she may not like the way I phrased that) but she is the type of girl who when she has a dream, a goal, an ambition, she obsesses over it. She can talk nothing else for weeks, which explains how and why we own a hedgehog.
5. Speech impediment that all children suffer with was even cuter on her. "Ricorish. Rolla. Puppesh."
6. She has minor kleptomania when it comes to others clothing that she takes a fancy to, mine definately included. (so puzzling out the closet issue when I leave will be interesting, of course).
7. She imagines Zombie Apocalypses. Hmmmm. Did not see that one coming?
8. Wicked Wit. I end up repeating most of what she says because I find it so funny, and I just cannot help myself when I find something to be funny like that, just cannot. Ask the show Friends.
9. She has the most natural tumbling ability of anyone I know! Flashback to a few years ago, she asked me to spot her while she tried to do a backflip on an air mattress set up on the family room floor, and this is not my shining moment as a sister, because she asked me and I set my hands on her back to help her out, keep her sturdy and then when the crucial moment came I stepped back and she did a back flip on her own. Man. Who just does that? There was a little resentment for spotting but it was all worth it.
10. She is my only sister, you knew that I know you did, and I often times forget that and I take the kid for granted. But there are also moments when she just means the world to me and I cannot imagine what I would do without her. And as much as I annoy her and she teases me, I love her as only an only sister can I imagine. I will always want to protect her and funnily enough I know she will always do the same for me. That ferocity that is in her comes out in such strength if someone seems about to mess with someone she loves. Her puppy self comes out I suppose, that inner guard dog! I am going to miss her more than I ever suspected, that goof, but I am happy I can always come home to her, to Leo, to Tommy, to my family.