Reasons why I need a therapist

For the most part, my childhood was normal. Except of course, boxed wine.

Through exchanging text messages with my sister, Ashley, I learned of all the reasons why I should be seeing a therapist:

-When Ashley had a bad day, she took it out on me by saying, "I wish I could just take a gun to your head."

-Mom completely ignored my request that Ashley should visit a specialist to treat her for Middle Child Syndrome.

-Even though I had my own room, I always had some little girl sleeping next to me playing tricks on my brain through my sleeping patterns.

-Ashley brainwashed me into telling her what her birthday and Christmas presents were.

-I lived with a hobo for several years. When Paige would come spend the night, she'd bring every article of clothing with her and stack them against the wall.

my update

I have been accepted to the program I wanted to go through for grad school, so eventually I will have my master's degree in library science, which I hope will get me where I think I want to be. I am excited to be on the same campus as Kim, and I'm not exactly sure if she is as excited as I am about it. And I am proud of Ashley for graduating and the prospective jobs ahead of her! But I definitely will miss seeing her when I am on campus in the fall (sometimes I think she is more excited about seeing me than my sister is).

I think Kim and I have gotten closer than we used to be. I think I used to be total BFFs with Emily, but since she got married we have grown apart. And in that time, I feel like I have bonded a lot more with Kim. I don't know if she feels the same way, especially when I go through her closet to find clothes to wear.

So, that being said, I'm kind of bummed that it is the end of the school year because she is about to move and be busy for the summer, so I won't get to see her hardly as much at all.

I had lunch with Emily last week. It was nice to sit and catch up with her, and we talked a lot about things that had been stressing us with work and money and life in general. It is nice that even though we have grown apart, we can pick up right where we left off. I guess that's the thing about sisters.

PS — Paige is going into engineering? I don't know if I ever would have guessed that. I'm not saying she's not smart because I know she totally is, and I know shares the same ambition and drive her sisters have. I'm just thinking back to all the quotes I have heard from her, her blond moments, her gullibility ...

Family updates!

We have some big changes coming about with the sisters in this blog.

I (Ashley) am graduating from nursing school on Friday!!!! I have already been offered a position at ohio state medical center and awaiting others...

Paige (the baby) is graduating from high school in less than a month!!! She is moving on to do some engineering at OSU!

We will be living in the same city again... AND I will get to do big sister things for her like take her out to lunch and buy her things. Being a big sister can be such an awesome thing sometimes.

Heather... well I don't think she has a big update at the moment... but we love her anyways.

The three of us will be going to Greece on the 26th of May!!! I am excited to update about that trip. I am sure there will be lots of bonding and lots of laughter and lots of fighting. It is just what we do. If sisters are good for two things its to laugh with and fight with (then laugh about fighting with).

Sister Cheryl got accepted into the masters program that she was hoping to get into which is GREAT news!!!!!! I'll let her update that...

And Kim... she is just like Heather. Nothing big at the moment (that I know of).

Change is such an exciting thing!

Love endures all things...