Like a snowball.... on the ocean

Alana and Sayler,

This memory popped up and I’m so grateful for it. I’m grateful that this is still your relationship. So incredibly close. So incredibly playful. So incredibly rife with the cliché of older sister-younger sister-annoyance. 

Sayler, we’ve just wrapped up 4th grade. It’s hard to remember when it started and ended.

The pandemic has made much of the last year a blur. Big, big, big, mucho grande blur.

But we also did so much. 

Together. 

You are obsessed with Roblox, TikTok, YouTube, mystery shows, and your closest friends, Seleste, Alexis, Josie and Samantha.

You are witty.

You are a a fixer.

You are a problem-solver.

You are “work smarter, not harder”.

You challenge me. You unravel our senses and make us rethink everything we’ve feigned knowing. 

Alana, your vocabulary is unreal. And often inaccurate.  Your expressions and humor are well-timed and random.  We’re here for all of it, sugar. 

Lipstick = realistic 

Choking = joking

“Ahhhh, that’s the stuff...”

You’re obsessed with dinosaurs, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Horses, My Little Pony and stuffed animals. It’s not uncommon to find all of them interacting in the same play-scene, our floors strewn with plastics and plushes; farm animals and forts; dogs: one real, numerous unreal; Barbies and booby-traps, messes and magic. 

You are kind. You are fire. You are clever.You are loving. You smother me. You wrap our family in love and light and laughter. 
We love you girls, endlessly.