My sister-in-law, nephew and niece are visiting us for the next week while my brother is away for work.\u00a0 I\u2019m thrilled to have them here. The kids are great and well-behaved, a joy to have in our
home\u2026but my sister-in-law\u2026I don\u2019t know how to explain how much I like having her here.<\/p>\n
I still remember the first time I spoke with her on the phone.\u00a0 My brother called from Germany to tell me that he had fallen in love, did I want to \u201cmeet\u201d her?\u00a0 Before I could say yes, I heard this deep laugh and then a definite Wisconsin accent.\u00a0 I\u2019ll admit to being surprised that my sweet Texan brother had fallen for a Yankee gal.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t he know that Yankees are for making fun of, not for marrying?\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
The more she talked, the more I smiled.\u00a0 I completely understood his attraction.\u00a0 My brother is a lot like me, and his bride is the girl version of my own beloved Computer Guy.\u00a0 Where we are loud and gregarious, our spouses are more quiet and reserved.\u00a0 They are the cool to our hotness.\u00a0 I knew she was a keeper even before he proposed.<\/p>\n
Here we are a few years later and our familiarity has brought us to a place of easy give and take.\u00a0 We have become family.\u00a0 She knows where the skeletons are buried and how to tiptoe around them; when she speaks of her family\u2019s politics, I know all the players.<\/p>\n
Sandwiched in between two brothers growing up, I dreamed of the day my parents would have another daughter so that I wouldn\u2019t be alone.\u00a0 I prayed nightly for God to send me a sister, but He never did. Then, one day, I got a call from Germany, and somehow I knew, when I first heard that funny accent on the phone that here was a woman who was destined to be more to me than just the love of my brother\u2019s life, she was the sister I had been praying for so many years ago.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My sister-in-law, nephew and niece are visiting us for the next week while my brother is away for work.\u00a0 I\u2019m thrilled to have them here. The kids are great and well-behaved, a joy to have in ourhome\u2026but my sister-in-law\u2026I don\u2019t know how to explain how much I like having her here. I still remember the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n