Cherish Your Siblings if You’re Lucky Enough To Have Them
Being a sibling is a strange thing. You are born into a family you don’t choose with brothers or sisters you don’t choose. And then you have to…
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When I Gave You a Sibling, You Gained a Best Friend
When we learned we were having another baby, I thought a lot about you. Our first. Our oldest. And I worried. About what you’d think. About how…
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Dear Kids, Your Siblings Are a Gift For Life
Dear kids, I know you love each other. I know you are both trying to figure out how to do life under the same roof and even support one another in…
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Having a Sister is a Gift That Lasts a Lifetime
I sometimes catch you, my daughters, out of the corner of my eye. There are a couple of years between you, yet you always find a way to come together…
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Cherish the Gift of Sisterhood, My Daughters
Dear daughters, You’re supposed to be sleeping right now, but you’ve asked to share a bed for the night, so quietly drifting off seems…
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To the Brotherless Boy
You are just a toddler now, not yet two, and the second born of four children. When I found out you were to have another sister—making you the only…
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How Blessed I Am To Be Raising Sisters
When I was expecting my second baby, people sometimes looked at my firstborn, a daughter, and told me, “Now you just need a boy . . . then…
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So God Made a Sister
He knew you would need someone to run barefoot through fields with and make mud pies with. Someone to run around the sprinklers with in the hot…
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How Lucky You Are To Be Growing Up With Sisters
Dear daughter, Do you know how lucky you are to have sisters? I yearned for a sister when I was a little girl. Cried, in fact, when my baby…
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Today I Let Them Play Together Longer
We needed to get our day started. Really. It was the beginning of a new homeschool week, and the morning was crawling closer and closer towards the…
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