Seems Like Yesterday.......

My brother will be 18 in one week from today! WOW!  Its so weird to think about how grown up him and my sister are. Seems like just yesterday I was the tallest out of all of us. I thought they would be short forever. : ) But not anymore.....now my brother towers over me and even my sister has an inch or so on me.  I'm no longer the smartest one or the tallest one. I'm not the one who has to take care of them anymore. I'll always be there because they're my little brother and sister but now they can fend for themselves.

Now they have their own stuff going on and they're own real problems. My sister even has her own bills......and its killing her! She hates that part of being a grown up. : ) Its so strange to think that in just a few weeks my brother will be graduating for high school. He isn't a little boy anymore....a punk maybe....but he's a man! WEIRD!!!!

He's not that little boy I used to wrestle with when we fought. He's not that little boy that cried when our parents fought. He's not that little boy that hated getting up early to go to football practice. He's not that little boy we had to drag out of bed in the morning in order to get him on the bus with us at 6:52 in the morning. He's not that sweet little boy that got picked on for being chubby.

Now he's that grown man that borrows money to buy the girl he likes flowers for her birthday. He's that grown man that wishes he could call off work every other day. He's that grown man comes and goes as he pleases. He's that grown man that takes responsibility for his mistakes and tries to make the best of the situation when most people would run away. He's that grown man that works out religiously. He's that grown man I love and have grown to respect maybe even admire.