Sibling love

You don’t choose your family.

They are God’s gift to you,

as you are to them.

~Desmond Tutu

I’m loving my kids today and trying to look past the fact that they were pushing each other’s buttons tonight. They are both tired at the end of a big week.  As they screamed and fought over such little things, I had to smile knowing that in life they will each be the other’s biggest ally.   By the end of the night, they were back to being sweet to one another.  Each of them were cuddled up in my lap as we said goodnight.  They shared a cute hug and kiss… the calm before the storm when they’ll be back at it again tomorrow.

Sibling relationships – and 80 percent of Americans have at least one – outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust. ~Erica E. Goode, “The Secret World of Siblings,” U.S. News & World Report, 10 January 1994