Today’s day 13 of 31 Days of Gratitude.
Today, I’m grateful for my ‘little’ brother.
Okay, so he’s only 18 months younger but still makes him my little brother.
Yep that’s him in the pic with me acting goofy from Summer 2009.
And yes, that’s me with glasses (ick!)
The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble. ~Clara Ortega
Not that I was EVER the ‘mildest/drowsiest’ because that’d be complete opposite but the part about turning into a tiger part would be true.
Nobody was ‘allowed’ to pick on my brother (except me).
I got into plenty of fights protecting my brother when we were younger…
came to his ‘rescue’ on few occasions too…
was getting bit by a dog, a friend of his pushed him from a 2nd floor balcony that broke his arm, recently as many of you readers know he was in a bad motorcycle accident and I flew to PA to be in hospital with him…being down here in FL felt ‘wrong’/helpless…while he lay in hospital bed with short term memory loss, shattered arm, leg, road rash all over.
Now, don’t think I’m the perfect sister because trust me, while I protected him & helped him, he also has a daily reminder of my metal Hong Kong Fuey lunch box (wonder if that’s why they stopped making metal lunch boxes for awhile? lol) being introduced to his head via the scar that is visible on his forehead, smashed fingers in doors, etc.
It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea. ~Dylan Thomas
After a girl is grown, her little brothers – now her protectors – seem like big brothers. ~Astrid Alauda
Now that we’re older, I rely more on him than he does on me.
I have nothing to offer him now but advice.
I can’t really ‘protect’ him any more (he’s 1200 miles away and a big boy that can protect himself).
But, we do email, text, talk regularly and he’s gotten me out of a few financial binds…
Now the positions are reversed…now he truly seems like the ‘big brother’ rather than the ‘little brother’.
He’s forgiven me (well not really since he mentions it every time we talk about my son’s bday) for not buying him beer when he was 18 and came down w/our parents to see me after my son was born.
We laugh about it at this point, we laugh about a lot of things in our past.
We talk about our present and our future.
Though I wish we were closer (in distance and other means), we are where we’re supposed to be…for now anyhow…who knows what the future holds.
But, I do know that I’m grateful for my brother!
Today I have two questions for you:
What are YOU grateful for today?
Are you grateful for your sibling(s)?
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