My Sister.....

Wow! It's been a while since I've updated. My excuse is that my life is not ALL that exciting, and sometimes I'm just too busy to blog.

Today, though, I have something extremely noteworthy to blog about. My sister, Nancy, is participating in the mini-marathon as we speak. You cannot begin to know how proud I am of her. Last year, she was very inactive and was starting to have lots of health problems. My niece, Nancy's daughter (thank you, Kelly), encouraged her to start working with a trainer. In the last year, I've watched my sister turn into the most positive and amazing person. Now to me, she has always been amazing. Since she is several years older than me, she sort of filled the gap when both of our parents died. I was worried about her because she was started to seem old. I worried that I could lose her. Because I love her so much, you cannot imagine how just thinking of this alarmed me. I will tell you that the Nancy of today seems at least 10 years younger than the Nancy of a year ago. I wanted SO badly to be at that finish line to see her cross it today. I didn't have anyone to go with me, and thought I might get lost so I decided to write about it about the time she might be finishing up. I have been praying for her all morning, and I'm almost in tears just thinking about her right now.

Next year, IF I can keep up with her, I want to be right there beside her. By this time next year, if she keeps going that 14 years in our age difference will probably seem like very little age difference at all.

YOU GO NANCY!!!!!! You are, and always have been, my wonderful, beautiful sister that has always given me so much joy, but today you are my HERO. I love you with all that the love a sister can possibly possess!!!!!!!