Middle Sister

Well, I’ve been busy with some real human interaction, so the electronic social life has been on hold. My sister MA came to visit from the Bay Area. We picked her up at PDX, it was her first solo flight. We drove into Portland for tacos and then headed home. A busy day!

MA is in the exact middle of our family. She has 2 older sisters (including me), 2 younger sisters, an older brother and a younger brother. She is about the same distance in age from me as she is from our youngest sibling. She’s almost 20, and spends a lot of time working and volunteering with preschool and elementary kids; knitting, and hanging out with her friends and fellow college group folks.

While she was here (5 days in all) we were fairly busy in a relaxed sort of way. We went to the ladies luncheon bible study, the Little Red Farm nursery, to church on Sunday, and out for ice cream with the L’s, all of which were good chances for me to show off my sister to various friends from the Chapel. We shopped all the craft/fabric/yarn stores, and did a fair amount of knitting. We went for walks in our hilly neighborhood, baked lemon bars, went out for lunch and coffee, and ate lots of good meals here at home, too.

It was really nice for me to have someone, in fact a special sisterly somone, to visit with during this time. BN is completely booked, studying for Quals, so I welcomed the diversion.

To my Middle Sister: come back soon!

To my other family members: she did it, so should you!