I was very little when I held a little baby not much smaller than myself. The baby was my niece, the little baby who on that winter day had made me an aunt.
I did not know how about the many times to come where we would play as little sisters.
I did not know that on the day I had gained the little sister I longed for in much later days.
Some days I was a naughty girl and made her cry. That was many years ago and another time of life ago. This week I got an e-mail from my niece and she made me cry.
Because you know what? Abi is one my very closest friends. She is the one who encourages me when I am down. She is the one who makes me laugh and she laughs too...even when I have embarrassed her. I secretly look at her taste of fashion and take note. She listens to me talk about nothing and I do the same for her.
Can you tell she is just an all around amazing girl? Most of the time I forget I am the aunt and just prefer to say we are sisters.
18 years a go My sister was a mother for the very first time. Mom entered the world of grandmother hood and well me...I was an aunty.
21 times I've been an aunt since then but 18 ago was the very first time the title nailed itself to my name and the adventures have never stopped and I hope they never do.
I know I look much to young to be an aunt of a 18 year old, but well some of us just age quite slow.
Kudos to Mom and Dad for putting with some very stubborn students and realizing education did not have to be conventional...
