My Brother is BACK!

I'm so happy that my brother got back yesterday!

It's funny how I did not really miss him when he was away but when he's back I actually feel very happy! The family feels complete. When I'm troubled I can just go next door to bug someone and whine. And that someone is actually funny and can also pray for me. How delightful!

There's also more than one person for my parents to nag at. Haha.

Welcome back dear brudder.

I never knew it could bring such joy to be close to your family. And it's probably not something I really really really wanted since I was a kid. To be close to my father, mother and brother. But it has happened somehow. Sometimes through making effort. Sometimes by accident. Mostly by the grace of God.

I'm going to end with a really stupid statement: I think family is really important.

Father's Day Card

My brother studying in Australia sent my dad a father's day card. It arrived today.

In it, he wrote about how when we were younger there was one night my dad caught one of us on the phone in the wee hours of the night but he wasn't sure who. My dad confronted me and I just said no it wasn't me. My dad immediately thought my brother was the culprit and scolded him. In the card, my brother said it wasn't him. It was actually his beloved sister!! And urged my father to scold me now. Probably 10 years too late. In any event, my father did not scold me. Today.

Don't ask me why my brother wrote about this in the card. It's a huge mystery to me. Nevertheless, I must sincerely apologize to my brother. For yet again, taking the rap for me. My poor brother, who used to be so innocent and maligned.

I do have some vague recollection of this incident. Ask me if I'd do something similar again and I wouldn't say no. Perhaps there's just a mean streak in each of us. Try as we may to be good, we are just not so good. =)