30 Day Challenge Day 27
Talk About Your Siblings
I have 3 sisters, 2 younger and 1 older. Yup. 4 girls in one family. Not a single brother.
Sophie is the baby, although hardly one anymore as she is 22. She is a crazy talented artist, I have a ton of her unwanted paintings hanging in my apartment. She’s also super independent and has been living on her own since she was 19. I mean, she has monetary support from our parents, but has no roommates. Sophie and I always fought the most growing up because we are both very similar. I used to think it was fun to provoke her and get in trouble. Isn’t that what older sisters do? But we’re both very stubborn and both had our angry angsty periods. She’s currently living in Montreal, although off to Italy and Paris for the next couple weeks.
Anna is the middle child, and my parents used to refer to her as the “hippie” child. I think this had to do with how she was always sort of off in her own world. She is still kind of flighty, sometimes when you talk to her you don’t know if she’s actually listening or just nodding without paying attention. She’s also a mad talented artist, and I have some of her work up at my place as well. She won’t admit it but she’s also the most hipster member of our family. She used to work at American Apparel and I think I learned what PBR was from her. She’s lived in both a loft in Brooklyn and a cabin in Dawson City. She’s going to have a lot of stories when she’s old. Right now she also lives in Montreal but there’s a chance she’s moving to Toronto soon.
Laura is my older sister. She’s also my half sis, so she’s 9 years older than me. We have the same dad, but I’ve always just considered her my sister, I just specify the half so people understand why there’s this big jump in age. She didn’t grow up with us, she lived with her mom (which is why I always feel like the oldest child), but she’d visit for Christmas and other holidays. She would send me cool cds for my birthday or christmas, and take me to see movies when I was a kid. She did all that cool older sister stuff that you want to do: she studied art, she cut her hair super short and back packed around Europe, she moved to Montreal. I used to visit her there when I was like 18 and 19. I feel bad that she was stuck trying to find fun things to do for her teenage sister. Now she and her boyfriend live in a house they bought together in Toronto and she’s expecting their first child. It’s actually the first time in my life that we live in the same city, so I’m pretty happy about that.
We’ve always gotten along really well. We bicker, I’ve thrown a marker at Sophie’s eye, we’ve smacked each other around, but we love each other. Also, and this is going to sound SO cocky, but we’re all also attractive ladies. It’s not like you could look at us and go “oh, she’s the ugly one”. Also, put us all together and suddenly the conversations turn into things my mother refers to as “bathroom talk”. My sister’s are crazy beautiful and talented and hilarious and I miss them when they’re not here!
This is the most recent photo I could find of us all together, from 2009. L to R: me, Sophie, Laura and Anna.
