in her eyes I am a goddess and her father a god. Her mother is all that she could ever want and she herself is all hope and future. She is my niece and today she met some other members of her family that she's never seen formally.
Her father and her aunt(not me)are twins. Unusual twins that don't get along so for the last 2+yrs her aunt never got to meet her. I seem to be the only idiot as I get along with them all...we have another sister as well making four of us in total alive and a half sister we never knew that is far older. My father and mother both remarried, he still is and she is not and neither having more children though my step monster brings her own foul progeny into the mix to make our grand total at home seven kids. I am number two. So, for Piper's first time I took her to see daddy's twin while he and mommy had a date night and she, Lobo and myself went out for chinese food. The little bugger ate like a trooper and off we went to auntie's house. At first a little scared but then when I went inside I found her with my sister's step daughter, a five year old with a bad temper and her youngest, and the two of them were having a blast. The older child felt needed as she was the baby at home and she got to play "big sis" to her new cousin. All the kids adored her from the 18yr old to the 5yr old...even the 18yr old's boyfriend was there and he adored her. She's a peach so long as she isn't being a shit as they sometimes do! You see, through her eyes the world is perfect. Big people are all powerful and perfect and other kids are her toys and all toys belong to her. Only today I watched this selfish only child share and giggle and have a blast with complete strangers. It was wispy and wonderful and actually fun.
Brother and sister should get long this great! If a two year old full of herself can put aside her differences long enough to quell the temperament of her ideal carbon copy in a five year old red-headed package, surely two 34yr olds could? I love them dearly and whether they like it or not they are so much alike it is uncanny. But both are as pig-headed as their father and mother and so become quite volatile when placed in the same carafe as their family and shook and stirred. I saw a softer side of my sister today that I haven't seen in ages. it's amazing what a cute tot can do to one's disposition! Through the eyes of a child the world is beautiful and a huge playground. I don't know when we lose that sight but I do know a lot of people who need theirs back. I guess everyone lost their at different pivotal moments. One never can tell and I suppose if life were to be so ideal all the time it wouldn't be worth fighting for, but boy would it be fun!~mobe's love to her all and her all to her loves.
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