I’m going to preface this by saying my sister and I can sometimes revert back to our 12-year-old selves when we get around our mother. It doesn’t happen when we’re together without her, but add our mom into the familial equation, then you’ve got a clusterfuck of teenage hormones.
A few Christmases ago, I was 3 months pregnant with my oldest daughter. I felt enormous. Little did I know, I’d double in size and stay that way for the next five and a half years. I felt like I needed at least a queen-size bed to share with my baby daddy. Anything smaller would kill the baby, obviously.
My sister and I along w/ my baby daddy were coming home to my parent’s for Christmas, and since we got there first, I claimed the room with the queen-size bed. You know. For the baby’s life. FOR THE SAKE OF THE BABY.
Can you guess what happened next?
My sister came into my parent’s house, marched into the room with the big bed, AND ROLLED OUR LUGGAGE TO THE SPARE BEDROOM WITH THE FULL-SIZE BED.
oh yes she did
And oh yes, I moved them back.
AND OH YES SHE MOVED THEM BACK BACK.
There was a cacophony of tears, yelling, insults. My dad was stuck in the middle. Don’t you dare feel sorry for him. He lives in his own little version of paradise. He felt the need to appease both his daughters. To make it even. Make it fair. What all fathers do for their fighting daughters.
He sided with his youngest daughter.
My sister won the battle. She got the big bed.
that bitch
But this is what I remember. This is how we make our memories. By insult-throwing, luggage moving, teenage-style tantrums.
Happy Merry Everything
Do you still fight with your siblings? Or are we the only ones who see the world through our 12-year-old Coke-bottle-sized lenses?
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My homegirl, Meghan, is hosting the Second Annual Great Bloggy Holiday Card Exchange. I posted the card back in November, but because I listen to Meghan cause that girl can cut a bitch, here’s the card again.
My girls are WAY too cute.
I’m teaching them to cut a bitch like Aunty Meghan.
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so let me get this straight – your sister got the biggest bed to herself, while you, your partner, and your massive belly got the smaller one.
And your dad sided with her?
I’d not be fighting with her (I’d put some laxitives in something she was going to eat though).
I’d be smacking your dad around!
.-= pixielation´s last blog ..The christmas lists =-.
she may be spending her Xmas in the toilet. good idea.
I am the 2nd of 4 girls. When we all get together, there’s always a fight to be had. It’s what we’re good at. Why change?!
HAHAHAHAHAH! i know your pain…you know i am also the oldest of only 2 daughters, and yes, my younger sister always “won”. even when she once stole my car it was somehow my fault. i even resorted to once putting a padlock on my own door to keep her out! but i do know what you mean about adding mom into the mix…total chaos! here’s to a lovely holiday this year….
.-= ashley´s last blog ..the many places of Rex… =-.
little sisters suck
I have one brother who lives blessedly a country away from me, whom I could cheerfully kill and I am sure he feels the same about me. It’s bizarre.
.-= Ms. Moon´s last blog ..Sex Please, We’re Sixty =-.
“cheerfully kill” made me laugh in an evil way.
I avoid my only sibling like the plague. I talk to him only when we happen to be visiting one of our parents, maybe once every couple years. It’s healthier that way.
.-= Tara R.´s last blog ..Reality of an empty nest =-.
can you still give him noogies? that might help.
I think you forgot to mention that the room you both wanted was actually your sister’s former room. Does that mean anything? Not that it’s rightfully hers now that you guys are “adults.” Just thought I’d throw that into the mix.
You know that my family is exactly the same! Fine with the siblings together without the parentals, but somehow their presence yanks us back in time about 20 years…crazy. I can handle about 1.5 days with everyone and then I am ready to split!
Yay for the holidays…not.
ok, that’s it.
you’re banished. DONE!
Just trying to keep you honest.
And I am the younger sister, so she gets a little sympathy from me. Pregnancy does trump it all though, IMO!
.-= Robyn´s last blog ..Yucky =-.
nice to have you on my side where you belong.
I avoid going near my sister to avoid exactly this kind of thing. Luckily we all know it’s her and not me, the husband agrees and the father does too. See, I have proof!
.-= Vic´s last blog ..Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree! =-.
lucky…
My brother and I would TOTALLY have this fight. If we had to share space again. *shudders*
.-= Aunt Becky´s last blog ..Satan’s Little Helper (etc) =-.
can you film the fight?
Haha! I’m the younger sister and always got the “I’m older” fun from my sister and strangely enough 75% of the time I listened. heh. It’s always *cough* a hoot and a half when we’re put into a shared space for extended periods of time.
Love the pictures of your girls! They’re adorable! Happy Holidays! (and Happy Holiday Card Exchange!!)
younger sisters must always listen and obey their older sisters. just sayin.
The card is adorable!
And I will just say this….I would have happily settled for the double bed when visiting my inlaws, but instead we got the wobbly bunk beds….they were scary and hubs wanted to sleep together in the top bunk putting 18 month old Giggles on the bottom so she wouldn’t fall out. He was INSANE-in the end he slept on the bottom bunk and Giggles & I slept on the top, because if someone was going to get crushed to death in his parents house, it was going to be him!
.-= domestic extraordinaire´s last blog ..Our wish to you…. =-.
ohhhhhh nooooo… sleeping on the top bunk scares me even tho i spent 1/2 my childhood on the top.
I enjoyed the story about you & your sister. Very funny!
Great holiday card – your girls are so cute.
Happy holidays!
thank you
We don’t have to have that fight. I’m the only one of the three of us that produced grandchildren. Therefore, I win. The biggest bed. And the two rooms with a bathroom in the middle.
.-= Kami´s last blog ..Nixon =-.
you SCORED!
Your sister was kind of not at all bad looking….
.-= Martin´s last blog ..Antsy =-.
weirdo
Martin – do you need to borrow Angie’s Coke bottles?
Why can’t women take a bloody compliment…
.-= Martin´s last blog ..Antsy =-.
cause you’re a big fat douchey liar.
Thank you Martin.
OH JEEZUS.
don’t feed him.
I didn’t have any siblings growing up so I missed out on good times like that. I’m making sure my kids have plenty of brothers and sisters to fight with.. I mean, love.
Love the picture of the girls holding hands, so cute!
.-= Mary´s last blog ..Bloggy Holiday Card Exchange =-.
my girls are friggin cute. thanks for noticing.
Great holiday card! Happy Holidays to you and your family!
.-= Anne Y´s last blog ..A Timely Gift – Just in time for my birthday! =-.
thanks!
I’m teaching my girls to cut a bitch just like Auntie Meghan, too. We’ll have an army before too long! woo!
.-= Andrea’s Sweet Life´s last blog ..Happy Holidays and All That Jazz =-.
auntie meghan is a good cut-a-bitch teacher.
Love those lil leggings!! Great Card!
.-= Zandi´s last blog ..Tis the Season =-.
thanks – they’re beyond cute
Sisters are awesome. Of course I am the youngest, so I always get my way.
Great card, love the photos.
Happy Holidays!
MEH. younger sisters get all the good stuff.
Ahhhh, yes the sibling spats…I know them well!
Very cute card! Your girls are adorable!!!
i could CREAM her in a leg wrestle.
IT WAS MY ROOM! (Thank you Robyn.) And we’ll all be up there next week fighting over rooms again. I call big room! (this time it’s for me, Fratboy and Noodlehead though…)
i’ll leg wrestle you for it.
I’m sure Jackie loved that you posted this picture of her. Ha!
And why did she need the bigger bed, anyway? Was it her old room?