Sisters.

As I said in my last post – my sister, Aaron, Prater, & I spent Thanksgiving in the mountains. We didn’t have an agenda – we did what we wanted, when we wanted… aren’t those the best vacations? One thing my sister & I wanted to make time to do was zip lining. So, we looked up a place just minutes from our secluded cabin & while Prater was napping, we flew down a mountain for two hours.

I am so glad that I got to experience this with Chelsea Ellis. Our relationship has grown so much over the past year & for that, I am forever thankful. I feared what our relationship would be after Daddy passed but I feel like we have clung to one another when it has counted most & Daddy would be so proud. I miss her when I don’t see her for a few days & consider her one of my best friends – telling her things that I don’t tell others & confiding in her about things that matter most like the feelings we felt in those last moments with Daddy & silly things like where to find the prettiest & cheapest infinity scarf.

When we were growing up, I wanted her to want to be just like me. Conceited much? She is absolutely nothing like me. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. Because she is nothing like me, she makes me a better person: pushing me to not be scared. Not only in silly things like zip lining, which I would have never done if my kid sister hadn’t called me a sissy, but in life – she grabs it by the horns, has no fears, & doesn’t care what anyone thinks – how did she get all the guts in the DNA pool?

In our relationship, I’ve learned to live out loud one Daddy’s most simple, yet most important lessons to us. Do not let something that “doesn’t amount to a hill-of-beans” get in the middle of an important relationship. Apparently I am hard headed (who knew?) & it took me a very long time to learn this in regards to my relationship with my sister, I’m sure I almost burnt one too many bridges with her before finally “pulling my head out of my butt” as my Daddy would say. I am just so thankful that she likes me enough to have waited for me to grow up & realize that just because we couldn’t be any more different & just because we do not share many of the same views & opinions & desires & convictions in this life does not mean we can’t have a strong relationship…