Sisters!

How do people make it through life without a sister?

"She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days she's the reason you wish you were an only child. " ~Barbara Alpert

Aunt Opal & Grandma Mary. Ohio, around 1940.

Grandma Mary and Aunt Opal. Easter 1966. Grandma Mary is 40.

Aunt Ocie, Grandma Mary & Aunt Opal. 1970 The three Lawwill sisters.

"It was nice growing up with you-someone to lean on, someone to count on...someone to tell on!" Sandra and me, Oct. 1958, 4 yrs. old. Disneyland.

Me and Sandra, California, 1958.

"Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life". Aug. 1960. Sandra is 8, I am 6.

"A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost". Natalie, age 3 & Lu, age 14 mo.

"We acquire friends and make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory".  ~Evelyn Loeb

"If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Natalie to live with grandma". ~Linda Sunshine

"More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good". ~Linda Sunshine

Natalie, age 5 & Stephanie, age 2. Houston, Tx

"When mom and dad don't understand, a sister always will". ~Author Unknown

Stephanie, 2 and Natalie 5. Houston.

"Sisters never forgive each other for what happened when they were five". ~Pam Brown

Stephanie, age 15 & Natalie, age 17.

"When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?"

Washington D.C.

"Our roots say we're sisters, but our hearts say we're friends".

Germany, Oct. 1999

"Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there defending you against all comers". ~Pam Brown

These two can't keep their hands off each other! Dec. 2000, Naperville, IL.

"Sisterhood is powerful". ~Robin Morgan

"Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other". ~Carol Saline  *This is my favorite pix of these two. It doesn't matter what the event- an earthquake, a wedding, the birth of a child. These two are in their own little world and always have to be touching!  Salt Lake Temple, May 2000.

"The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble". ~Clara Ortega

"Sister to sister we will always be, a couple of nuts off the family tree". Lu pulls the eskimo rabbit face & Natalie~her traditional rabbit face!

"You can kid the world. But not your sister". ~Charlotte Gray Stephanie, age 25 & Natalie, age 28. Lehi, Utah.

"We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior high". ~Charlotte Gray

***To Stephanie & Natalie: I am so happy I gave the gift of sisterhood to the two of you. I have enjoyed watching you enjoy each other tremendously over the years. I love you both very much.  xo  mom