The Mirthful Morgans: My Sister, My Best Friend.....

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

My Sister, My Best Friend.....

"To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time." ~Clara Ortega

Almost two months ago already, i had the most wonderful opportunity to see my sister. It had been over 3 1/2 years since i had seen her and thanks to the grace of Mum and Ray getting married (he he) there was reason enough to spend the hundreds of dollars that plane tickets are these days and she came here to Tennessee. Weddings are joyous occasions enough on their own accord, but this was like 1,000,000 Christmases combined!

I LOVE my dear sister, all of her....her faults and shortcomings, and her wisdom, love and maturity. I have to say that this visit was worthy of being a "significant moment" in my life as we were able to work through some things from years ago and i was able to reach a deeper level of understanding and love as i had not yet experienced. Louise was patient and kind and through our temporary difficulty she NEVER was willing to give up on me, no matter how childish (or scary) i behaved. I laugh a little to myself now at how no matter how old you are siblings really can bring out the child in you like no one else can. ;-) Regardless through the pain we persevered ;-) and grew closer together and for that i am truly thankful of the Lord.

I understand myself in a completely different way than i did before and i have to say at 32 years old, i didn't know that my sister could have the power to do that to me. I am grateful to you, Louise, for all the times you were there for me through all those hard years. I know and acknowledge you were there and know that things would have been a lot more miserable if i hadn't had you. You are my gift from God and always will be. :-)

So the other day i was going through some old journals looking for first hand stories to tell my children. They LOVE to hear the stories from my childhood and now that they are getting older and can understand more things i thought i'd skim through my journals and see if there was anything they might enjoy me reading to them. Well i came across another notebook that happened to be my writing notebook that was part of my English class from my first year of middle school (6th grade). We were sometimes randomly given a topic to write about and i was struck with the entry on October 10th 1991. I was 11 years old at the time. This is what it says:

"The person that means a lot to me in my life is my sister. She means a lot to me because when ever I'm sad or I'm in a bad mood or something like that she always cheers me up and makes me laugh. If me and my sister were alone we could laugh forever. My sister loves to do drama and act, she has been in a few plays. And we always talk about old times and things. And we always borrow clothes and stuff like that and we always fight about things."

Louise, you are my sister, my best friend. AND i still feel that if were were left alone together we could laugh forever. :-)

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder,

who stands a chance against us?

~Pam Brown

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.

~Marion C. Garretty

My high school graduation

Dancing to Michael Jackson's Thriller. :-)

My HS graduation

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All about John & Nicola

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All About Edy

She is fun-loving and pretty much always wants her way (who doesn't) and 90% of the time it works out well as she's a good girl with righteous desires and is extremely responsible and mature for her age. However that 10% of the time where we actually don't agree on something, she can be a little devil! She is a huge help with Jack as these two are best buds! Jack likewise adores her and she is the only one out of his other siblings that he'll let parent him. Eden is also in the fifth grade and loves to read. She has a passion for horses and all animals really and also loves to cook and bake.

Top 7 Favorite of "The Complete Life's Little Instruction Book"

{Why 7 and not 10...because I haven't found three more I really like the best yet. AND these are in no particular order either.}

1. Remember that life's most treasured moments often come unannounced.
2. Hold puppies, kittens, and babies any time you get the chance.
3. To help your children turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.
4. Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.
5. Watch for the big problems. They disguise big opportunities.
6. Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
7. Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen every day.

The Duty of Mothers...

The duty of the mother is to watch over her children, and give them their early education, for impressions received in infancy are lasting. You know, yourselves, by experience, that the impressions you have received in the dawn of your mortal existence, bear, to this day, with the greatest weight upon your mind. It is the experience of people generally, that what they imbibe from their mothers in infancy, is the most lasting upon the mind through life... Children have all confidence in their mothers; and if mothers would take proper pains, they can instill into the hearts of their children what they please. You will, no doubt, recollect reading, in the Book of Mormon, of two thousand young men, who were brought up to believe that, if they put their whole trust in God, and served Him, no power would overcome them. You also recollect reading of them going out to fight, and so bold were they, and so mighty their faith, that it was impossible for their enemies to slay them. This power and faith they obtained through the teachings of their mothers.

-Brigham Young