Of all the quotes on the side of the page, I like the top quote the best, "Having a sister always meant having a friend." Oh, there were some days when I hated them tagging along. Actually, most of the time, I hated letting them come. My mom always said, "Heather, let your sisters come. One day when I'm dead, all you will have is each other."

I remember when none of us could find our own friends to play with, we settled on playing with each other. Sometimes we would go under the deck and have our "Three Musketeers Meetings" which met bi-weekly to discuss how we could sabotage the three boys who lived next door, before they would sabotage us.

Sometimes we would get brilliant ideas like having a snow cone sale, lemonade stand, or I would suddenly realize that the poor stuffed animals are probably cold and lonely in the basement, so I would make my sisters carry them up two flights of stairs and make a home for them on the floor of my walk-in closet.

Or, if it were rainy, we would have to do something inside the house, so we would play house in the basement or use it as a skating rink because the basement wasn't finished. Eventually, mom divided the basement into three different "houses" so we each had a section of the basement that we had to decorate and keep clean. Then when we played house, we pretended we were all the moms and were all neighbors. It was pretty cool. After we got bored with that, we would go upstairs and watch movies. I remember if there was a funny part in a movie, we would rewind it over and over again, until we laughed so hard that we couldn't breathe. I remember babysitters saying, "ok, lets watch the rest of the movie, you've seen that scene about 140 times." But it never got old, we just laughed harder and harder every time we watched it.

It's funny how when we grow up, we change. What I like more is how we don't change. I remember Ashley would never sleep by herself. She ALWAYS wanted to sleep with me. Her excuses ranged from "Santa might come in and hurt me" to "the Construction guys across the street scare me." Sometimes she would even bribe me by saying, "I'll tell you what you are getting for your birthday..." and then of course I would consider it, only to find out I was getting a mini-skirt. But for the most part, I ALWAYS said no, I liked being alone and after spending a whole day with my sisters, I needed some time away from them. (Probably the introvert in me). That hasn't changed. I still need my alone time. Although, I didn't know how to express that so I said, "I need my privacy." Ashley still likes sleeping in the same room as someone, and I still hate it.

Ashley and I were usually inseparable. We are only two years apart, and I'm six years apart from Paige. So, Ashley and I got along better, we also fought more. Usually our fights would end with Ash screaming, "Sometimes I wish I could take a gun to your head!" One time I went up to my bedroom, wanting her to feel guilty and held my breath for as long as I could in the water in my sink...thinking I might die. I thought, "well if I die, she'll feel bad." Dad walked in and said, "what are you doing?"

Embarrassingly I said, "Ashley wants me dead." Dad looks at me and says, "oh, ok." and walks out of the room.

ahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhaa Imagine being the dad in that situation.