Christina Lynn Photography

Today, right now, right this minute as I type this, my sister has turned 25.  Well, not exactly, according to our mother who will tell you that you aren’t REALLY your next age until the precise time that you were born, on the day of your birth – but since I am the person that celebrates the birthday week, birthday month, half-birthday, etc (whatever gets attention!) I am declaring that she is officially 25.  And since I am 7 1/2 years older than her, that makes me 28.  Your math isn’t right.  Mine is.

Patricia (or Trish, Trishie, Teenie, Aunt Trish, and many others) is an amazing sister.  She is an amazing person, sister or not, but I am especially lucky to share a name, to share blood, to share a family with her.  I was going to write 25 things about her, but it’s late, and I’m tired, and limiting it to 25 just seemed too, well, limiting.  So I’ll touch on the highlights, and if you know her, you can fill in the blanks.  If you don’t, you should meet her.  And if you know some boy, somewhere, who would be good enough for her – truly, REALLY good enough for her, send him my way.  So I can pre-screen him.

1.  She’s gorgeous, inside and out.  She is the embodiment of the phrase ‘wears her heart on her sleeve’, almost to a fault.  She does everything with heart, and lives kindness.

2.  She is also smart.  REALLY smart.

3.  Did I mention gorgeous?

4.  She’s always there, right over my shoulder.  Making me look like a two-headed monster.  But the happy kind.

5.  She understands me.  We’re cut from the very same (crazy-patterned patchwork) cloth.

6.  She also understands that it’s not okay to kill your sister for putting up bad photos of you on her blog.  I am the oldest, so I make the rules.  Deal with it.

7.  She will kick some serious Soulja Boy ass at your wedding reception.

8.  This is what is affectionately known as ‘Trishie hair’.  Can you imagine being the mother to this little girl?  Adorable as a box of puppies, but she had to be CHASED around with a hairbrush.  And don’t even try to pull it up, or out of her face.  She’ll deny this completely, but it’s the absolute truth.  I’m the oldest, so I know.  I was there.  Living it.  Curling my bangs in the other room while she looked like this…

9.  She is the most amazing aunt to my boys.  They adore her, and she is super fun.  She even lets them help wash her super shiny new car.

10.  She’s also an accomplished pianist, a humble one at that.  She’s really, really good.