{day twenty-five|guest post|}

  Hello! My Name is Anna and I blog at www.psalm1830.blogspot.com . I'm Yella Rose's older sister and I've been asked to guest post for her today. Hope you have tissues nearby and enjoy what I've come up with.

Hmm...

Guest post.

Oh the dirt I could dig up telling

embarassing stories,

but I won't and I'm hoping Erin doesn't do that to me.

I thought about doing something like

"If I could tell ya one thing about this person it would be..."

But I couldn't think of just one thing.

And now I think I might cry.

There once was a little girl, a very selfish little girl,

who lived 6 years of her life as an only child.

And then,

Mom had another baby, a girl.

Well the little girl wasn't very happy about that. Oh, it was nice to have a real baby in the house,

but to share Mom and Dad, her house, her toys!

She wasn't always very nice to this new sister,

( there's video to prove it).

And years later came yet another girl and finally a boy.

The oldest girl didn't think she'd like this first sister entering her life,

but now she couldn't imagine life without her, or the two other siblings.

To imagine life as an only child,

oh what boring sadness.

Because of the age gap there were times growing up when the older girls didn't want the younger one around,

she in her stuff or pestering her when she just wanted to be alone.

But things got better and as a teenager, when the others were still young she would play with them.

Playing babies and orphanage when she was 15 and they were 9, 6, and the Boy 4(who was one of the orphanage children).

Building forts, dreaming up adventures,wrecking wagons on the "Oregon Trail", swimming in the pool that looked more like a pond because of the bugs and green hue.

And then the girl got older, and graduated high school and went off to college, leaving those siblings behind.

And that first sister wrote a card that said, "don't meet any guys while your there".

She still has it somewhere.

It was an adventure, but sometimes a lonely one without her gang of siblings.

They talked twice a week on the phone, but so much was missed while she was away.

They grew older and she wasn't there to see it.

Two years later she boarded a plane all by herself and said goodbye to this family, to these siblings that she wasn't sure she wanted at first, and flew around the world to live in a different country.

And she discovered something while she was there.

Those siblings, those parents, her God,

they were her very best friends in all the world,

and she couldn't imagine life without them.

She came and went a couple more times before finally going to live with a godly man who loved her and married her and they moved farther away.

But then, this first sister, met a goldy man too and began to talk.

And talking led to courtship,

and courtship to engagement

and then, to marriage and moving far, far away.

And the girl watched her first sister say I do,

this sister she almost hadn't wanted,

and her heart broke for all the times she had thought she was pesky and hadn't wanted her around,

because she now knew this sister, this friend, would be far away and seeing her would be few and far between,

and life was moving so fast.

And now these sisters live miles and miles apart,

but that girl, she knows despite the miles,

her first sister will forever live in her heart and memories.