Finding JOY in Sisterhood

As you know, I am the middle child between an older sister and younger sister. Growing up with sisters has taught me so much in my life. I have also realized that I was very oblivious to a lot of things due to the fact that I lived in an all girl household. Though I sometimes wished I had at least one brother to mix up the estrogen levels, I am so grateful for my sisters and can’t imagine life without them. I wanted to talk about a few things about sisterhood and the joy I have felt in my life from it.

The Early Years

It wasn’t always fun and games when we were younger. My sister Bekah and I shared a room up until my senior year of high school. Due to us sharing a room, we had bunk beds, and sometimes we would get in huge fights because of the bunk beds and not having a space to ourselves. I remember one time, Bekah got scared in the middle of the night so she climbed into bed with me, and then wet the bed, got out of my bed, and let me sleep in the pee. When I woke up in the morning my clothes were dry but the sheets were soaked and I was so confused. When I realized what had happened I was so mad that she just let me sleep in pee that wasn’t even mine. It is now hilarious, but at the time I was very angry. We would butt heads so much that my dad bought adult boxing gloves and made us box each other in our family room. Bekah would always sucker punch me in the face and I would get so frustrated because I was older and should have been able to beat her up but she beat me up instead. It is now some of my favorite memories boxing my little sister. Kayelee never really fought with us, she always avoided conflict, but I remember when she was in middle school, she never wanted to hang out with us, and Bekah and I would bug her all the time to play. We would always barge in to her room to talk to her and she would act so embarrassed to be seen with us it was hilarious.

There were so many more good times than bad though. We could play together for hours, and we were pretty much pros at all the make believe games. We loved playing house and had so many baby dolls we would have to pile them all up to carry them from room to room. Sometimes we would stuff our bellies and pretend to be pregnant, which was always fun. We would also play what we like to call olden days where we would dress up like pioneers, take every single blanket we had in the house and take them out to the trampoline and build a fort under the tramp. One time while we were playing olden days it started pouring rain, so we had to go through the gate to the front yard and carry all the blankets into the garage so our dad wouldn’t see. Let’s just say our mom wasn’t too happy about the huge amount of laundry that night.

Some of my favorite moments have happened with my sisters. I would always sneak up to the top bunk to play uno with Bekah until way past midnight, and I would army crawl into Kayelee’s room so my parents wouldn’t see from downstairs, to have a fort party under her loft bed. We would always sneak snacks and drinks upstairs to these secret game night parties. The best/ stupidest thing that we almost did was try to jump from our roof onto our trampoline. Thankfully our neighbor was nosy, saw us on the roof, and came running out to make us stop before we almost broke our necks.

Building Friendships With my Sisters

Growing up I was always close to my sisters because we played so well together. But the older we got, the less we saw of each other unless we really made the time to hang out. Because of this, I really cherish the things that brought me closer to my sisters in high school.

Kayelee and I had music in common with each other. Not to brag or anything, but we are both very talented singers, so we did choir in high school together. I made Varsity Women’s choir and Acapella choir my freshman year and because Kayelee is a year older than me, she was already in the Varsity choirs, so we got to sing together. It was really fun for me to be able to sing with her. We got to go on two choir tours, and also go to state in Coeur D’alene, where we had a blast. We also got to participate in the musical Cinderella together. We spent long hours rehearsing and having so much fun. I am so grateful that I was able to share those experiences with her.

Bekah and I played volleyball together. She made the varsity volleyball team her freshman year, when I was a junior, so we were able to play on the same team for two years. She was my pepper partner and warm up buddy. It was so fun, and we would die laughing whenever she would hit me in the face, or I would hit her in the face on accident (there were times when it was on purpose). We would go to tournaments and spend the whole summer in the gym playing volleyball, which to me kind of sucked sometimes, but having Bekah there with me made it a little better. I like to think that I inspired her to play college volleyball. Just kidding but really.

Finding JOY in Sisterhood

Because of the experiences that I have been able to have with my sisters, I am grateful to say that they have brought me so much JOY in my life. Due to this, I have realized that by doing three things with my sisters has helped our relationship and contributed to the JOY.

1. Staying in contact: I am not always the best at this, but I always try to at least text them during the week to see how they are and get an update on their life. Also, it is fun to facetime so that no matter where we are, we can see each other’s faces and feel like we are close by.

2. Being supportive of their endeavors: They have always supported my dreams, and I have always tried to support theirs. Having a positive support group has allowed me to do things that I didn’t think I could do otherwise, and I hope that my support has allowed them to do the same.

3. LOVE: being loving and kind towards my sisters has allowed us to become closer. Yes, we do fight, but we are more often than not having loads of fun because we love to hang out together. That is due to LOVE. Loving despite faults, fights, and disagreements. And also letting each other know that we love them.

All in all, I am so grateful for my sisters and I wouldn’t trade them for the world. I am so thankful that I can talk to them about anything, and have so much fun with them no matter what we are doing. I am so grateful that they are my best friends. I have had so many fun adventures with them, we truly have had a great life together. Sisterhood is something special and something that I am so grateful for. And due to the amount of pictures in this blog post, it should let you know how much JOY they bring to my life.