QotD: Family Circus
Share a story about your sibling(s) or a family member from when you were a kid.
Submitted by Jenny Marie.
FAMILY BIRTHDAY TRADITIONS
This pic was taken at my middle sister's thirteenth birthday party. She is on the far right. That's me on the left; Im almost seventeen. My baby sister's in the middle; she's four. My middle sister's birthday is in June (Gemini) and mine is in July (Cancer). On her birthday we usually gave a party and on mine we usually travelled. As we got older, the parties and the travel got bigger. She would celebrate with huge dinner parties at restaurants, I would have a destination birthday at a Bed and Breakfast on Long Island or Virginia Beach, etc. My baby sister? Her birthday's in April (Taurus). Being so much younger, she got whatever she wanted for her birthday, but nowadays a friend will throw her a small private party.
The pic above is us, in the South Bronx, natural, on my mother's homemade chair covers, before we went to college, before we grew up, smiling with no shoes on. Nowadays, Im an attorney, my baby sister is a preacher and the Birthday Girl is now a Phd. Today we dont even listen to the same music anymore (Me:Gangster Rap + Reggaeton, Baby Sister:Neo-Soul + Contemporary Gospel, Middle Sister:Disco and R+B).
Sometimes we go to cookouts together, but we dont usually party together anymore. This is us last year with Dr. Kathy at the East Coast Blogger Cookout given by MrSlish. In the future, I hope we can party together again.
And that, Mes Enfants, is the story of my family's birthday traditions!
