Wednesday Medley

Everything below this line is from the National Day Calendar.

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NATIONAL SIBLINGS DAY

National Siblings Day (also referred to as Sibling Day) is observed on April 10. It is a day created to honor our brothers and our sisters. 

Siblings. They are sometimes our best friends or our worst enemies. At times, siblings will provide us with our biggest competition, strongest encouragement and remind us of our most embarrassing moments.

Fictional characters describe those siblings best who are both rivals and yet are best friends. In The Hunger Games, Katniss puts her life on the line to save her sister Prim. Both Bo and Luke Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard risked their lives for each other. Author Beverly Cleary’s Beezus and Ramona’s longtime love-hate relationship between siblings depicted a normal childhood filled with angst.

Real life royal siblings Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret had a different set of rules to follow making their relationship quite different from anything we would call normal. Being a queen will do that.

Queen Elizabeth’s grandsons, Princes William and Harry and William’s children, too have royal sibling relationships that engage the world. 

Playing fictional characters who are siblings and being siblings in front of a television audience must have created a different lifestyle for Mary Kate and Ashley Olson. Their older sister is Elizabeth.

Another pair of sibling actors is Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty.

There have been plenty of presidents with siblings as well. George W. Bush has five siblings and William Jefferson Clinton has three.

How many siblings do you have? Are you rivals or do you support each other in all you do?

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Everything above this line is from the National Day Calendar.

(Just a note before we start... if you are an only child, substitute an aunt, cousin, or a friend if you want to participate!)

I am an only child so I will substitute my aunt  who is much younger than most of my aunts, only 6 years older than me so we grew up  sort of together..When  I visited grandmother, Aunt Nancy  always treated me like her little sis!

1. Stealing the questions from above: How many siblings do you have?. Are you rivals or do you support each other in all you do? We support each other in all we do.

Having no true siblings as I stated my Aunt Nancy was the closest thing to one.. I chuckle when I think of support...  You see, I was  a city girl and  Aunt Nancy lived with my grandparents on their dairy farm.  I slept with  Nancy when we  visited and  it was  dark  and  scary enough for me who was used to  the city lights  outside my window.  Nancy took advantage and  scared me even more making  strange noises and acting  rather  spooky  around  the time we had to climb those stairs and  go up  to  bed..  I wouldn't call that support!  I suppose  support came later on in life!

2. Have you heard of the Birth Order Book? No  What are your thoughts on the premise that your birth order affects everything you do in life? After reading Terri's response and seeing what the Alpha child is like,  I'd have to say,  I agree to  an extent...  just  studying our granddaughters..  it seemed pretty true to form..  You see, being an only child and having only one child hardly makes me an authority on the subject.

3. Is there something that you still do that drives your siblings crazy? 

Well, now that I'm 68 and  Nancy is   well into her 70's and we live several states apart,  Id have to say no.   and  after  those earlier years...  we  got along famously..  Nancy was a  cool teenager..  She could imitate Elvis Presley perfectly.  and what a singer and  dancer she was. All of us cousins looked up to her and looked forward to visiting.

4. Are you closer to your siblings now than you were when you were younger? If I  had them I think I would ..  I love my cousins so much and  always look forward to our visits.  I haven't seen Nancy in some years.  But when   I was about 12 and she was 18, when we visited  and it was Saturday night,  grandpa would only let her take the car to town   if I went with her..  She would try to make me look older than I was.. She had a couple of places  we'd cruise around to..  always looking for  a couple of particular  guys.. Those were  very interesting years for me..  Nancy was always very careful young lady,  but she knew how to have fun!

5. Would you dare to tell us an embarrassing story about a sibling? 

By 1964  Aunt Nancy was living with us as she went to  Business School  and  that was  quite  something  for me at 14 and   her at 20.  We  got along fairly well,  but not always..  I could be a persnickety younger "sister"! Aunt Nancy had,  unfortunately, suffered from polio as a tot,  and  wore braces on her legs  until  she was about  12..but she  had and has unto this day  a limb with that shorter and weaker leg.  But  her  huge personality  always   over shone  that  slight infirmity..I remember  one time  as Nancy was leaving her  business class  she spied a very cute guy  leaving in his orange  MG...  She was  walking  toward  the bus stop    with her  books, etc, she  sort of stumbled  on an uneven  sidewalk.  Suddenly,  Sir Galahad of the MG stopped  his car, got out and   helped her  with her stuff and  gently  led her over to his car...  He  was a young man   from one of the other classes,    and  she bravely  accepted his offer for a ride home.. She got home    right after I had gotten home from school...  My eyes bugged out when I saw her  amazing  driver and   what a gentleman he was to  help her into the house...They were laughing and carrying on like they'd known each other forever and when she invited him for dinner  that night he accepted..  Then he left.  I approached her wide eyed and  demanded to hear the tale...When she mentioned her stumble I thought, "sure knowing her, she did that one on purpose to get a rise out of him!" 

Well,   Mom and dad and I had  a church dinner that night and Nancy was making her  best dish-  homemade pizza and  a lovely salad   and  when Dream Boat arrived  I raced to the door to open it and let him in and in my exuberance, I  laughed and  said,  stupidly,  "So you fell for that  ruse  ..  the stumble..  She was just  trying to see what you'd do!"  If looks could kill  Nancy would be serving  in the state pen..  but  Handsome just laughed and said,  " Well, I'm glad she captured my attention,  because she is a captivating young lady!"...

All's well that ends well,  thank goodness,  or I'd hate to know  what  the revenge would have been!!!  Because I had been  a rather  bratty snot  that evening!

6. Tell us something random about your week. We host the SOS prayer meeting here this week..  I fear that our group will be rather small but  even so  I'm sure it will be a  wonderful time of intercession.. I stopped in at Fresh Market this morning and bought some lovely  spring flowers!

I did purchase some cut flowers and was able to make 2 arrangements  one for me

 And one for my dear friend, Cary, who is a home bound   lady I  help to serve at our church!

Thanks for your visit!! 

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God bless!