Today is my Sisters birthday! Happy Birthday Leslie! Every year I try my hardest to send a card or a present in time for her birthday. Last year I did better than sending a present or card, I showed up for the weekend!! It was so much fun and we said we should try to do it every year. Um..yeah..didn’t happen again this year, but that’s ok. I had a plan!
My plan was to search online and in person for a glass cake stand for her collection. Well, I don’t know if she has a collection already, but I was bound and determined to start her one. She talked about growing one a while ago and I was going to get her started.
I didn’t find any in my local antique mall that was within a reasonable budget for a stinkin’ cake stand, so I went to ebay. I found THE one I thought would be perfect for her collection. I bought it and waited to get it in the mail. I won’t go into all the sorted details, but lets just say, I didn’t get the cake stand in the mail because the seller was an idiot and felt irrationally threatened by my inquiries as to when it would arrive and when I said I would leave negative feedback if they continued to ignore my emails, the seller canceled my purchase and there is nothing I can do about it. Well there is one thing I can do. Leave negative feedback because they are stupid and paranoid and don’t care about the customer service they so desperately want say they want to protect!! Ahem….sorry. Anyway, this is what I had picked out for her and I think she would have loved it. Maybe I can find another again someday and it will have her name all over it!
So because I was so wrapped up in fighting for this piece, I missed my window to send a card and the other small gift I picked out for her as well. (Sister- that will be coming in the mail this week…just late!)
Which brings me around to the beginning again….I missed sending a card and gift AGAIN! and even when she tells me it’s ok, I still feel like I suck! Good thing I have another year to work on getting something to her! LOL Maybe I should just send them all at once and she can dole them out each year to herself! Hahaha! Instead, we talked this morning and I sang a speshal song for her on her voicemail.
Something you don’t know about my Sister. She is the most hardworking woman I know! She is kind and loving, she does for others and her heart is the size of Texas. All that awesomness is all wrapped up in one little person! She’s a dynamo! She and I share a common bond: we think we are so stinkin’ cute! And we totally are!! She is loved by so many people who know her and that is why I have spent my whole life looking up to her and striving to be like her. She doesn’t really know just how much of a role model she is to me. Her spirit and courage to get through some of life’s most excruciating challenges has not only made her stronger, but is a shining example of how to live life despite ones circumstances and ultimately thrive. She may not think that her life is all that awesome sometimes, and I know there are lots of things she desires for her life that she has yet to accomplish, but my Sister is a woman worth noting not onlyfor what she has done, but more importantly for who she is.
Happy Birthday Leslie, my life is so much sweeter because you are in it! I hope you have as wonderful a birthday as you are!
XOXO
Your little Sister, Angie
A perfect ending to another great birthday! Thank you Sister. Yes, I would have loved that present. For now, I will have to settle for the picture. Maybe I can figure out a way to incorporate it into my blog. I love you this much xoxoxo
PS – My life is boring. I’m just sayin’. Word.