My baby sister is starting first grade today. When did that happen?!
I look at these, and can only think of how young we both look. But... I don't feel like it was that long ago. It seems like just yesterday the nurse was handing her to me. I was the first person to hold her after she was born, and I remember telling her, "I'm your big sister, Shelby. We're going to be best friends someday." What I didn't know.. was that 'someday' started right that second.
As much as I'll miss everyone in my family when I go back to school... I'll miss Sydney the most. I'll miss watching her gymnastics. I'll miss her scaring me with a Justin Bieber cut-out in the closet. I'll miss watching her grow up. It's tough. She doesn't always understand why I have to leave. She sometimes asks, "When are you going back on your mission?" Haha..with Brandon serving his mission in Utah, it's confused her a bit.
I have one more week home, and it will be full of this little girl. :)
Life goes by fast. Don't waste it worrying about things that... in the long run.. really don't matter.
It's sad! My brother was 2 when I moved away from home so he doesn't remember me at all except as a married momma with crazy kids.
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