Today is Wendy’s birthday. Wendy is my sister. My closest sister in age, with whom I shared a room until I was a senior in high school. She is the one that I loved the most, hated the most, hit the most, and missed the most when I left. This is a pretty bad picture of her. I should have a good one... we collected pictures last summer for a slideshow. But Wendy was at Girls’ Camp and left her husband in charge of sending the pictures. In the one he sent of the two of them, Wendy seemed to be wearing something that looked a little Texas polygamy compound. So instead you get this one. There are four of us girls in the family. DK likes to make trouble, by saying that there is a pretty one, a smart one, a talented one and one that married well. Believe me when I say there is no virtue in trying to figure out which is which. Anyway, back to Wendy. She has it all. Even the marrying well part, sort of… last summer when we all got together for a little family reunion, one of my boys said, “Mom, wasn’t it good of Aunt Wendy to marry Uncle Joe?” Um, yeah, I guess… “She really had to take one for the team, and we appreciate it.”This isn’t really Wendy’s birthday. We celebrated June 10th as her birthday for the first fifteen years of her life. And then the time came for Wendy to apply for a social security card so she could get her first job. She came home one day around her 16th birthday, a little bewildered. “Mom, my birth certificate says my birthday is June 9th. How can my birth certificate be wrong?” At which point my Grandma Hamblin chimed in… “I told you she was born on the 9th! I told you that for years…” Grandma wasn’t usually an “I told you so” kind of person. But that one was just too good.
Happy Birthday, Wend! Hope you milked it for all it was worth both days. Tuna fish tuna fish tuna fish! (sorry...inside joke involving vomit)
Here are the sisters... The one with the glasses is my sister-in-law, Carolyn. There is something hanging down from the top that must be some sort of medieval torture device. Clearly I was feeling tortured.
9 comments:
That is just too good!
Oh my gosh! Do your boys look like you or WHAT?! So cute.
Happy Birthday to Wendy yesterday and today. Leave it to the hubbys to make trouble like creating a little riddle like that.
That is the funniest thing about her birthday. I love that Grandma was right. Hilarious.
Happy Birthday Wendy.
That is the funniest story I've heard in a long time!
ETHAN looks like you.......what a great picture...so funny.
love the birthday story!
Sorry mom, but your dress isn't much better than Wendy's.
Yeah, Josh, but MY dress was in the 1970s... Aunt Wendy was somewhere in the 2000s... anyway, I kinda liked the Daisy Mae get-up. I think it was a Gunne Sax. Yeah, I know... you have no idea what that is...
OK so those two posts...the bike and the sister had me laughing out loud and that doesn't happen very often. The bike story is a classic and needs to be published with possibly the names changed to protect the humiliated. The sister post rang so many bells for me. Although I had only one sister she often seemed like 4 of them. We are night and day and so it was often not a good thing but it works for us now. (most of the time ;) Thanks for sharing your family with us. It has inspired me to jot down a few choice memories in the future on my blog. Btw: you must have been the "pretty one"
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