Oh, Brother!

Hello, everyone! We've been having great weather, haven't we? I'm loving the whole 80 degrees out all the time thing! "It's so warm out..." Yah.

Anyways, my post today concerns BROTHERS. Elwen has the misfortune of having Phil. (I'm just kidding, just kidding! I couldn't resist.) Emma says she'd trade Jack in a heartbeat (Tricia for Jack? DEAL!). Gracia and Anna Marie have two, so does Fiona. Lauren has Johnathan. Why do all my friends have brothers!?

I have a brother, but not in the same sense. My brother (he would be older) died before he was even born. My family is pretty sure it was a boy. My parents didn't even tell me until I was ten. If the baby had been a boy, his name would have been Christian.

I've asked a lot of my friends about brothers, trying to get a good sense of what having one is like. I asked Gracia on G-mail chatting once, and she said 'good and bad'. (PS- You have everything I don't have! Older brother, older sister, younger brother: I am jealous!) According to Emma, having brothers is a nightmare. Margaret can't stand having Nick as a brother, but I think she said that because he and Johnathan were going on about how she and Lauren couldn't date without they're approval.

You know how in movies, there will be a girl who's never met her father and spends forever trying to figure out what having a daddy is like? It's sort of like that for me. I really want to know what having a brother is like. I'm close with lots of guys, but none of them are really blood relations. When my friends can't really explain 'brotherhood' to me, I go to books. That's where Narnia comes in. I thought that it would be perfect if I was right in the middle of the Pevensie family. I could find out what having an older brother was like, in addition to finding out what an older sister and younger brother was like.

I know that I'll never have the brother I've always wished for, and I'm not sure whether that's a good or bad thing. I still have three younger sisters, and I'm not sure if that is a good or bad thing either. For now, I think I'm going to remain content with borrowing my friends' families. That way, I have TONS of brothers! (Jack!!! *sigh* I love that kid...)

"A lady of Narnia must remember to get around to her Confirmation thank you notes. I'll do them soon... I hope..."