To My Sister

Happy 32nd Birthday. Below are 32 of of my favorite memories of you and of us in no particular order.

32.Eating queso with you at Chili's

31.Watching you become a Mother

30.6:20am phone calls in the car

29.Getting mad at you for leaving the television on all night in your bedroom when you lived at home

28.Singing 'That's What Friends Are For' whenever you would get mad at me when we were young

27. Hiding my bad papers in the woods at the end of the school year and getting caught by Trisha Marone

26.Running up the stairs when I got home to see you standing naked in the bathroom doing your hair

25.Singing back up for you and Nancy Guzman

24.Pool parties

23.Lip Sync shows and Barbie competitions at Maura Powderlies house

22.You, helping me get from class to class for the first 2 weeks of high school

21.Visiting you at Dean where I got to kiss that very cute boy, Mike

20.You, helping me plan 2 weddings (haha)

19.You, helping me pick up the pieces when Jud left me

18.Peeing on a stick with you in the bathroom watching

17.You making me pee in the barrel when I was little

16.Watching you catch crabs on the beach at the cape and being scared of them

15.Always having you a phone call away whenever I needed you

14.Watching you fall in love with Mike so many years after he fell in love with you

13.Borrowing your ex boyfriends for prom dates

12.You allowing me to kiss your boyfriend Ed because I needed to "practice" kissing

11. You, waking me up every Christmas morning by climbing into my bed

10. Getting rides to school with you in high school (even though you threatened to make me take the bus daily).

9.Painting my house together - oh and me painting you!

8.Climbing into my bed during thunderstorms

7. Making up games in the pool like mermaids

6. Watching Dawsons Creek and 90210 with you

5.You singing into the vacuum and having it suck your lips in

4.Exploding eggs in the microwave

3.Me telling Mom and Dad that you were going to dress like a Slut when I had screwed up because you actually told me you were going to dress like a prep.... (oops sorry!)

2.Playing Atari, Coleco and Nintendo

1.Singing 'The Rose' and using the cordless as your microphone and speaker phone as you speaker