Happy Birthday to the guy who taught me how to rewire a toaster and put down roof tiles, who showed me there is nothing wrong with carrying your heart on your sleeve and that you should always do unto others what you would like them to do to you.

Hope you have an amazing day, Thanks for being a role model and a friend, we fight like cat and dog, but I know you always have my back…

So yesterday my little sister went to her Matric Farewell!!! OMW! I feel so old, how can the little tiny thing who used to follow me around and insist on doing everything I did be all grown up now?
She kinda reminded me of lyrics from a Britney Spears song (yes I’m quoting Brit-shock horror) “Not a girl, not yet a woman”
It scares me that she’s going into the “real world” soon (as if high school wasn’t bad enough) She means so much to me, always has, and I can’t imagine her having to take on everything on her own…But we all do don’t we, we have to make decisions and face the consequences – that’s just life.
As I watched her in her grey gown and blue accessories (all designed by her) I suddenly felt calm, this girl has never backed down to anything in her life, strong from the core. I suddenly felt proud of what a woman my little, hockey playing, party loving, environmental club, christian leader, never afraid to ask for help or give it, little sister is becoming.
She’ll be fine and although I’ve had to get used to not being part of every aspect of her life, I’m proud to call her Sister and Friend 🙂
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I’m almost 27, I’m married and have a kid on the way, but really I’m just a big baby 🙂 my family (mom, dad, sibling, aunts, uncles and so forth…) left for a beach holiday this morning and as I said a groggy goodbye I couldn’t help but feel jealous and completely left out. It’s crazy really as I’m going up to see them for Christmas weekend, but I cant shake the feeling that it is JUST not the same, Rob and I will rock up with our own everything and actually just be neighbours to them for the trip (weird how things like not sharing the family sized sun block and shampoo can make you feel like an outsider). It’s to be expected, I’m starting my own family now and even though I will always be part of the Douglas clan, I took on the Meyers name and that means, sharing holiday’s between two families, and even though I’ll always be my daddy’s little girl, truth is I’m NOT a little girl anymore.
I think it all has to do with me having to be a grown-up, having grown-up responsibilities (I can’t join them today because I’m still at work and have a bunch of, why oh why did I decide to be an adult type things to do) Being a grown-up sucks, your washing doesn’t do itself and the fridge doesn’t magically stock itself, bleugh.
Funny thing is that when my parents invited us to the beach for Christmas (they go every second year) I was dead set against it. Swollen feet, and sensitive preggy skin are not beach friendly and neither am I (not being able to body board and drink wine by fire side also suck), but now I’m actually excited, I get to build sand castles with my nieces, get my teen cousins opinion on teen novel I’m attempting and just not be at work for a bit.
This morning as my brother teased me that I was gonna miss him, I told him to get over himself and as my sister coughed up a lung (she has a cold/or flu/or the plague – and I felt bad for her even though her teenage angst and my pregnant hormones have been clashing all over the place lately) I thought he was prob right, I do miss them, I miss helping to get them ready for school, I miss dragging them to Sunday school, I miss them annoying me with their constant questions and needing me to show them this, or help them with that. Truth is at 23 and 17, they really don’t need me that much these days, but that’s ok, I needed to make space for the someone who will be arriving soon and will prob need me 24/7 anyway, this just means I need to get used to my new role in the family, I’m out of the house, but not out of the family… but first things first I need to get the last day of work over with…..beach here I come (almost, here I almost come)

PICTURES FROM BEACH HOLIDAY 2009. . .

my mom and dad

thea and tay napping in a giant plastic shark, as ppl do

Taylor and her mom, omw! tay is still a baby here

my bro

my cousin, Desthea

the husband

my sister

To think I used to think my thighs were big then, hahaha, I had no idea