The Weird Sisters

I know I have mentioned before that I am in a

facebook book club thanks to my friend, Lea.

This month we are reading

THE WEIRD SISTERS by Eleanor Brown

It is the first full book I read on my Ipad and

I am loving it.

This book has hit home on so many levels for me

coming at a time when not every day has been

very good. I am, right now, filled with

so many emotions about my future,

If I am doing the right thing, Will my HOBL

continue to be supportive through this thing called

our life. I know in my head that this is silly thoughts.

Yet, when making life decisions, it can rack you.

So, back to the book.

This book has had so many lines and quotes that

I have highlighted.

Last night I read:

"How old were you when you first realized that your parents

were human? That they were not omnipotent, that what

they said did not, in fact, go, they had dreams

and feelings and scars? Or have you not realized that yet?

Do you still call your parents and have a one-sided

conversation with them, child to parent,

not adult to adult?"

I became teary-eyed when I read this.

My note I added was,

"Oh how I wish I could"

At major life altering times like what I am experiencing now,

It is my daddy I want, my daddy who I could ask advice

from and would make me feel better.

I know I am blessed to still have my Momma,

but she is not the momma that she had been in my

growing up years. She is more child-like.

Us siblings, more like her parent now.

How, last night I longed to be young again,

to be 20 again when my daddy was still alive

and would have supported any decision his baby

girl had made.

Today's lesson?

Love your parents, take advantage of the fact that

you can still call them and ask advice if needed.

That they are human, that they have

"have dreams and feelings and scars"

I have never missed my parents so much as I do today.